Coral Racing Ambassador, Hugo Palmer, has horses across four different tracks this weekend, including the unbeaten Glorious Game!

13:45 Ascot – Glorious Game
 
This is a busy Saturday with runners at four different tracks, starting off at Ascot with Glorious Game. It’s the obvious step for a Listed winner to go for a Group 3, she is unbeaten to date but equally, she is only rated 88. So this either means that she’s got a long way to climb to be competitive at this level, or as I say, it will be the logical next step up the ladder. 
 
I’m very interested to see how she goes here – I think she is ready to step up to seven furlongs but she’s in the big sales race at York and we’re keen to go there also, so I didn’t want to step her up to seven in the Sweet Solera and then drop back to six at York. We’ll stick with six here and then look to step her up later in the year.
 
14:00 York – Stratusnine
 
Stratusnine in really good form. Sadly he hasn’t won as many races in his life as he should have done for a horse of his talent but he does loves York, having finished second there on all three starts.  I think he’s probably drawn in the right place in stall nine, he has a top class rider on him in James Doyle and I hope he can go well off a mark. I still think he’s ahead of the field but these big sprints are hard to win.
 
14:20 Ascot – Cheshire Dancer
 
Cheshire Dancer always saves her best performances for Ascot, including a win in this race twelve months ago, however she will need to return to her best form to feature again here. It’s a small field but I hope they will go a good gallop. She wasn't her best after Pontefract so we had her bloods done and as it turns out, they were all wrong. Fortunately they are now right again, so we can put a line through that and look forward to seeing her in better spirits.
 
She ran well here at the Royal meeting and if she can step forward from that level of performance, she could well be competitive here again.
 
15:10 Chester – Velociraptor
 
I wasn’t going to run this horse here but with only five others entered, it proved just too tempting to ignore. He’s drawn well in stall two and if he reproduces his third place at Newmarket behind a well-regarded Ballydoyle colt, he should be hard to beat here.
 
15:42 York – Desert Smoke
 
James Doyle also rides our other York runner. We were delighted with Desert Smoke’s debut run at Newmarket, I thought she ran really well and this doesn’t look quite as strong a race. Only five line up against her, I think she will step forward well from Newmarket and I’m hopeful she will go very well.
 
15:48 Chester – Tricky Tel
 
This horse loves Chester almost as much as his owners, he’s in great order, looks fantastic and he has a decent draw in a small field. He looks to have an obvious chance and I hope it plays out like that. David Probert is riding plenty of winners for us and this will be another strong ride for him.
 
16:00 Newcastle – Penny Time
 
This race has divided, with both legs attracting the maximum 14 runners. Penny Time is a soft ground or all-weather horse, hence why we’re here but he’s had a few weeks off, so he might just need this run. His work has been fine, the lad who rides him here suggested we put some headgear, so he’ll have cheekpieces on and the hope is that once we get this run into him and then the rain might come and we can keep him going.
 
16:58 Chester – Nolton Cross
 
Nolton Cross still hasn’t won on the turf yet but he ran really well here to finish second last time, so that lack of a turf win doesn’t unduly concern me and if he can repeat that, he should go close. All three of our Chester runners are in small fields, so if everything goes right, (which it rarely does) I think we could have a treble here!

Hugo Palmer, Coral Racing Ambassador