Nick Luck’s William Hill blog: Cambridgeshire Meeting Day Three preview

William Hill ambassador Nick Luck previews Saturday’s action from Newmarket and Haydock.

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Saturday, Newmarket

BOW ECHO can launch Cambridgeshire Day in style in the Royal Lodge (1.50pm). Although this race contains some very exciting colts, this one made the deepest impression imaginable when winning at Haydock, well backed to beat a Gosden horse with a huge reputation. He looks well balanced, professional and up to taking the next step in grade.

FITZELLA may well have a bit more to offer in the Cheveley Park and can upset the talented Lowther fillies in the process (2.25pm). She’d have got pretty close to Venetian Sun in the Albany on the right part of the track, and that puts her right there with Royal Fixation. She can freewheel nicely over this trip safe in the knowledge that she’ll hit the line hard, and I’d be surprised if they weren’t Oisin Murphy’s tactics.

THE PUBLICAN’S SON ran so well on his debut, he’s difficult to ignore in the Middle Park (3.00pm). There’s not a heap of pace on here, apart from perhaps Hilitany, and he might well sit a bit further forward this time. In essence he should have won a pattern race on his debut – very few are capable of such a thing and the standard set by Wise Approach is decent without being insurmountable.

CASH might finally have his big day in the Cambridgeshire (3.40pm). I suspect connections had a rather bigger day in mind for much of his career, but this mercurial character could just find conditions and race set-up perfect for him here. A lot of his best form has come on a straight track, he won his only start here, and he’ll get the pace to run at that he clearly craves. He comes into the race in top form and yet has gently slid down the weights to a point where he looks pretty well treated.

Saturday, Haydock

KING OF LIGHT can spring a minor surprise in the sprint (2.05pm). He ruined his chance at the stalls in the Portland but didn’t run all that badly in the circumstances. He’ll find this a lot easier, and has Silvestre de Sousa taking over to get him out of the gate, plus first time cheekpieces. If all of that has the motivating effect, he has easily enough ability to be competitive.

HAWKSBILL is half a price in the mile race (3.15pm). He has run by far his two best races over this course and distance and still looks feasibly treated on his narrow defeat here earlier in the season. He has a tendency to race with the choke out, which can cost him, but Oisin Orr might just be the perfect settling jockey for the job at hand.