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The Juddmonte Stakes (G1)

Love before winning the Moyglare Stakes at the Curragh in 2019

Love replaces St Mark’s Basilica as the sole representative from Ballydoyle, possibly her best performance came here last year in the Yorkshire Oaks, she’s up to repeating it however the flat run at Ascot when third to Adayar and Mishriff needs to be overcome.

Two furlongs out in the Irish Derby MacSwiney was still travelling well, same could be said at Epsom, maybe he didn’t stay and this trip will be more to his liking.

Mishriff the money machine is asked another question at 10F, he didn’t have the answers at Sandown in the Eclipse, the break since his wins in Saudi and Meyden possibly meant he needed the run however at Ascot he was unable to cope with Adayar’s turn of foot.

Alcohol Free was very good at Goodwood in the Sussex Stakes, she beat Poetic Flare fair and square, the form franked in France at the weekend, the question, will she stay these extra two furlongs.

Juan Elcano and Mohaafeth were second and third to Bangkok in the York Stakes over this trip where the latter went off odds on to win it, he had a pacemaker who went too slow and Jim Crowley sat too far off it, the muddle became a mess, can he correct it here.

Alenquer didn’t have the pace to lie up with them in Paris last time out, he’s a G2 winner over a 1m4F, significantly he won over 10F, in the Sandown Classic Trial when he beat Adayar.

It’s more open than the betting suggests, holes have appeared in them all, only one, Alcohol Free was a winner last time out, a case can be made for nearly all, given her run last year where she was a 5L winner of the Yorkshire Oaks, the attraction is Love.


. Recommendation

Love 3/1 win