Candy sprint double at Haydock?

Black type races and hot handicaps all over today, but the main events are at Haydock where we expect Henry Candy to land a big sprint double with Music Master (Fergus Sweeney) over 5 furlongs at 16.10 CET and Limato (Graham Lee) at 16.45 in the Group Two race for 3yo´s over 6 furlongs. Candy has a well-deserved reputation for his handling of top sprinters and Limato, unbeaten in 5 races so far, seems destined to go right to the top. Anotjnher Trainer who can alnd a big race double here is Roger Varian, who saddles Talmada (William Buick) in the fillies Group Three at 15.00 and Aljamasheer (Paul Hanagan) in the 7 furlongs race at 15.35. Talmade showed much improved form when chasing home the smart Secret Gesture at York last time and a repetitiion of that form should be good enough here; Aljamasheer was one of several runners in this field who were unplaced last time in the Group One Lockinge at Newbury, but we feel that he can improve on that form over this shorter trip.

At York the listed race over 1 3/4 miles at 15.20 could lie between Elidor (Mick Channon/ Martin Harley), up in grade after winning a good handicap at Newmarket and running over his ideal trip, and Red Galileo (Ed Dunlop/ Andrea Atzeni), who has the better form but has not won for a long time and is up in distance; however with our favourite jockey on board , he gets our vote. The handicaps here look too difficult to predict, but we expect David O´Meara to win the ooener over 6 furlongs at 14.45; however as he has 5 of the 16 runners it is still not easy- perhaps top-weight Louis the Pious (Shelley Birkett) could be the answer.

Our main fancy at Chester is Chookie Royale (Keith Dalgleish/ Andrew Mullen) in the 7 1 /2 furllongs handicap at 16.00; a toigh front-runner on the all-weather, he is much better handivapped on turf and may be able to stay this trip on this easier track. At Newmarket, Richard Hughes can take the listed rave azt 15.456 on the Queen´s Peacock (Richard Hannon).