Newbury and Newmarket

There is plenty more good racing this afternoon, and Newbury´s card is headed by the Group Two Mill Reef Stakes for 2yo´s over 6 furlongs at 15.30 CET and the Group Three Dubai Airport World Trophy over 5 furlongs at 16.40. The latter event has attracted many of the leading sprinters, including Astrophysical Jet (Ed McMahon/ Graham Gibbons), easy winner of a similar event at the Curragh last time, when Hamish McGonagall (Tim Easterby/ Kieren Fallon) finished 4th and Triple Aspect (William Haggas/ Liam Jones) 5th. With the Haggas yard now in good form, we hope to see the last-named triumph here, although Gilt Edge Girl (Clive Cox/ Luke Morris) - third in the Goldene Peitsche last time- and Prohibit (Robert Cowell/ William Buick) are also dangerous. Two more stables currently in top form are those of Brian Meehan, who can take the Mill Reef with Crown Prosecutor (Martin Dwyer) - Andrew Balding´s Desert Law (Jimmy Fortune), the only maiden in the field, could be the dark horse h ere - and John Gosden, whose improving Senate (Buick) can complete a hat-trick in the 10 furlongs handicap at 16.05.

The top race at Newmarket is the Tattersalls Millions Auction Trophy over 7 furlongs for 2yo´s at 15.55 and worth a whopping 200,000 pounds. Richard Fahey is likely to be at Ayr but still has a good chance of landing this with Sir Reginald (Declan McDonogh). Oracle (Aidan O´Brien/ Johnny Murtagh) represents the top Irish connections, while Michael Jarvis - who suffered some expensive reverses yesterday- saddles the fancied Roman Eagle (Philip Robinson). Clive Brittain and Mark Johnston each saddle 2 runners, and we like the look of the latter´s Malthouse (Jean-Pierre Guillambert), a half-brother to top German miler Martillo. Of equal interest is the Cesarewitch Trial at 16.30, which as the name suggests, is a handicap over 2 1/4 miles, a distance over which very few of the 15 runners have ever raced. One of them is the likely favourite Red Cadeaux (Ed Dunlop/ Murtagh), but we are not convinced and prefer to look among the light weights - especially Simonside (Brian Ellison/ C hris Hayes) and Montparnasse (Meehan/ Jean-Paul Beuzelin); we would also like Lady Hestia (Marcus Tregoning/ Hayley Turner), who has won 4 of her 5 starts this year, but the stable form remains very poor.