Frankie Dettori, who drew a blank on his comeback at Newmarket yesterday, can win major honours at Goodwood tomorrow.
Dettori will be aboard Layman in the showpiece race, the £100,000 totesport Celebration Mile, and will be widely expected to triumph.
The Godolphin colt, a high-class juvenile last season when trained in France by Andre Fabre, gained an impressive Group 3 win on his reappearance this term at Salisbury.
He has reportedly worked impressively since that success and possesses the potential to make his presence felt in the highest grade. Success tomorrow at Group 2 level would go a long way to confirming his burgeoning ability.
Furthermore, he will be bidding to put Dettori, who has spent the last eight weeks on the sidelines with a broken collarbone, back in the big time.
Climate Change would be a topical choice in the Motoring & Leisure Handicap. John Gosden's charge got off the mark in maiden company at Newmarket last July and looks capable of making his mark in handicap company.
Faleh has a similar profile, having broken her duck in a maiden race at Doncaster last time. She now bids to follow-up in the Seafrance Fillies' Handicap and does not look overburdened.
At Beverley, Ego Trip can lift the Charles Elsey Memorial Challenge Trophy for Sheriff Hutton trainer Mick Easterby and his stable apprentice Paul Mulrennan.
Although it has taken him time to get his act together this season, Ego Trip came good at Ripon on his latest start. Over the same distance of a mile and a half tomorrow, the four-year-old can follow-up.
There are 15 runners in the £15,000 Britannia Rescue Nursery and, given the strong draw bias on the five-furlong course on the Westwood, the winner is likely to come from one of the first half-dozen drawn horses.
Fortress, trained at Newmarket by William Haggas, showed at Chester recently that she is capable of winning in handicap company and, with Dale Gibson in the saddle, she is fancied to come up trumps from stall nine.
Mistress Twister is napped to defy top-weight in the John Jenkins Memorial Fillies' Handicap David Barron's four-year-old was beaten by less than a length to Gallery Breeze at Ripon, after being forced to switch to deliver her challenge. Compensation is on the cards for Paul Fessey's mount.
Sunday's tips
Goodwood
1.45 Encora Bay, 2.15 Climate Change, 2.45 Faleh, 3.15 Layman, 3.45 Spinning Queen, 4.15 Fisberry, 4.50 Little Eye, 5.25 Double Sceptre.
Beverley
2.25 Graze On, 2.55 Just Observing, 3.25 Fortress, 3.55 Ego Trip, 4.25 Mistress Twister (Nap), 5.00 Bolero Again.
Tomorrow's other race meeting is at Yarmouth (afternoon, Flat).l There is racing at Ripon on Monday and Tuesday. The first race on Monday is due to be at 2.25pm. Tuesday's action is scheduled to start at 2.10pm.
Updated: 10:55 Saturday, August 27, 2005
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