Nick Luck’s blog: Broome can sweep past Yorkshire Cup rivals

York, Friday

I’m hoping BEENHAM (10/1) can win the Marygate (1.50pm) – the opener at York on Friday. I think this horse is priced more on his stable than achievement, but don’t underestimate Rod Millman with his two-year-olds and he looks to have a handy type on his hands here. He made a sharp improvement from Bath, where he was very green, to Goodwood beating a well-touted horse of Eve Johnson Houghton’s in good style. The track should suit and connections have booked William Buick which might be a tip in itself.

QUEEN FOR YOU gets the vote in the Michael Seely (2.25pm). She made a big impression on me on her debut at Ascot where I thought she won with a fair bit in hand. She’s got a fantastic pedigree and the quicker ground should hold no fears, while the stable is in much better form than it was when she won earlier in the month. She’s a really promising type and I like her to win this at 5/2 before a tilt at the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot.

He might not have run for an absolute age, but I’m quite sweet on ARAMAIC in the 1m2f handicap (3.00pm). The last time he was seen at York he absolutely dotted up beating an in-form horse in Pivoine and because of the lengthy absence is allowed to race off just five pounds higher. I don’t think, as Dante Festival handicaps go, this all that competitive, and given William Haggas was quite sweet on him last week, he could take quite a lot of beating at 13/2 if ready to go.

BROOME looks overpriced in the Yorkshire Cup (3.35pm) at 3/1. He’s still pretty unexposed at this staying trips and I think he might just have too much pace for them dropping back in distance. He’s a horse who wants proper fast summer ground and his exploits over 1m4f against some proper talented rivals are better pieces of form than his rivals. I’m a big fan of Quickthorn and while he was very good at the Ebor Festival last summer, I do wonder if that has left his mark.

KATHAB should take the beating in the novice race (4.10pm) at 9/4. He was a good second in the Wood Ditton which looks solid form after Passenger’s run in the Dante on Thursday. He ran on in pretty eye-catching fashion at Newmarket and with the Haggas stable in much better form now, he is the one for me. The fact Jim Crowley has chosen him over Mostabshir is obviously a positive too.