Nick Luck’s William Hill blog: Ainsdale can be Perfect in Beverley Bullet

Goodwood, Saturday

BREEGE can land the opening Prestige Stakes at Goodwood on Saturday (1.50pm) at 7/1. This is a very talented filly, as she exhibited when bolting up on her debut at Wetherby (statistically one of the hardest tracks to make a winning debut). Her subsequent defeat meant she missed Royal Ascot, but that could be a blessing as she’s a tall filly who might want at least this far. I’m looking forward to seeing what she could do up in trip, after a staying on third in this grade last time.

RHOSCOLYN might have another good day in the seven furlong handicap (2.25pm). He didn’t run at all badly at York, having travelled almost best of all, then rather bullied out of it late on before staying on. With a plum draw and a forcing ride here, he could take a bit of stopping at these weights at 11/2.

PERFECT ALIBI might be able to give Hoo Ya Mal a fright in the March Stakes (3.00pm) at 4/1. She has an absolute mountain to climb on ratings, but there’s no way we’ve seen the best of her yet, she’ll appreciate the rain that has fallen, will definitely stay, and could get a nice easy time of it on the front end in a small field.

ESCOBAR is hardly a horse on the up – and an unlikely selection for your normal Group 2 – but there are reasons to think he is a little overpriced at 11/2 in the Celebration Mile (3.35pm). Favourite Mutasaabeq is really talented, but he finds ways of getting beaten and I think a soundly run mile just stretches him. The Crisford pair are respected, but Jadoomi is evidently not easy to come right and Finest Sound is wheeling back quick enough. That won’t bother the selection, who you could run every day and love this track and ground. He might just fall in here.

Beverley, Saturday

TANGLED might have his day in a somewhat uninspiring TV opener at Beverley (1.30pm) at 10/1. One mile plus just stretches him a little, and neither is he the most resolute, so a slight drop in trip and a visor might just do the trick in a race of few certainties.

POST IMPRESSIONIST is given another chance at 5/2 in the Silver Cup (2.05pm). He has been a little disappointing the last twice, but must be competitive on his earlier season form with Eldar Eldarov and a slightly more forgiving surface and the application of a tongue tie could well have the desired effect.

AINSDALE is a tentative choice in the William Hill Beverley Bullet (2.40pm) at 9/1. He had some smart pattern race form for Karl Burke last year – most notably with a little cut in the ground – and shaped as though he retained nearly all that ability on his first start for Julie Camacho at Newcastle. I suspect they all ran into a freakishly good horse in Sense Of Duty that day, there’s nothing of that calibre here, and I expect Ainsdale to have the pace to make stall one count.

Newmarket, Saturday

GREAT AMBASSADOR must have an excellent chance at 10/3 in the Hopeful Stakes at Newmarket (3.15pm). His run in the Stewards’ Cup was outstanding given where he was parked on the track, but for which he surely would have defeated several of today’s rivals quite comfortably. Compensation awaits granted no similar ill fortune.