Sandown may have Workforce and So You Think tomorrow, but Beverley have Polish World and Noodles Blue Boy, two North Yorkshire horses with major chances of enhancing their course records.

Polish World was twice a winner on the Westwood last season for Paul Midgley, who has aimed him at the Eltherington Handicap for a Beverley treble.

The seven-year-old has been slowly coming to hand this season and, following a good third at Newcastle on his second start, he was beaten only a length into second place by Koo And The Gang at Redcar a fortnight ago.

They were two creditable efforts from a front-runner on a straight course. The return to a turning track tomorrow will suit Polish World and his habitual style of running much better. He is expected to take plenty of catching and is awarded the nap vote.

Noodles Blue Boy already has three course victories to his credit and number four could be forthcoming in the featured Coachman Caravans Quality Handicap over five furlongs.

Trained by Ollie Pears, the consistent five-year-old has finished runner-up on his last two starts, most recently at Newcastle last Friday when he chased home Mick Easterby’s Ancient Cross in the Gosforth Park Cup. He has strong claims of going one better.

Pears can also make his presence felt with Sangar in the Powerpart Fillies’ Handicap.

The three-year-old has run only four times, including once this season, and was a good third at Hamilton earlier this month, beaten only a length by the winner, Save The Bees. Sangar steps up a couple of furlongs tomorrow and will have the assistance of Paul Hanagan, a significant booking for the Pears stable.

Hanagan has several other good chances throughout the card, not least aboard the promising Badea (1.50) and Pantella (5.40), a close-up third over the same course and distance just over a week ago.

Beverley’s bumper card can hardly hold a candle to the top-quality action from Sandown, highlighted by the £400,000 Coral-Eclipse Stakes, a must-see Group 1 showpiece.

Workforce, winner of the Derby and the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe last season for Sir Michael Stoute, locks horns with So You Think, a superstar in Australia, who is two from three since joining Aidan O’Brien.

Mugged on the line by Rewilding in the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot, So You Think has been installed the odds-on favourite to get the better of Workforce, and the winner of the Brigadier Gerard Stakes on this course on his reappearance.

There promises to be precious little to choose between the pair, but So You Think may be better suited to this ten furlongs than Workforce.

This is not, by the way, a two-horse horse race. Snow Fairy also has to be respected. She’s a dual-Oaks winner, who also proved herself a Group 1 performer around the world. But she has had an interrupted preparation and it would be surprising if she could beat the ‘big two’. So You Think gets my vote.


Racing selections

Beverley
1.50 Badea, 2.25 Springinmystep, 3.00 Zaffy, 3.35 Polish World (NAP), 4.05 Noodles Blue Boy, 4.40 Groomed, 5.10 Sangar, 5.40 Pantella.

Sandown
2.00 Margot Did, 2.35 Pendragon, 3.10 So You Think, 3.40 Ajaan, 4.10 Nahrain, 4.50 Johnny Castle, 5.20 Rastaban.

Tomorrow’s other meetings: Carlisle, Haydock, Leicester and Nottingham.

Today’s meetings: Beverley, Doncaster, Haydock, Sandown and Warwick.