Updates from Ascot’s six-race card, first off at 1.20pm BSTTalking Horses: tips, plus Wright on music-racing parallelsAnd feel free to email Tony or tweet him @tonypaley 2.49pm BST 2.41pm BST The best of the day’s favourites should be Palace Pier, a classy and unbeaten colt who seems at ease on all types of ground. He would have been a Guineas contender if this had been a regular year, with time for a prep-run, but has instead had to make do with the St James’s Palace Stakes (ahead of Pinatubo) and the Marois (snugly, from Alpine Star). His rivals can’t match that form and, having had just one run since June, he should be capable of another big effort. The Revenant loves this kind of surface but King Of Change was too good for him in last year’s QEII and Palace Pier looks a cut above that one. Circus Maximus is tough and consistent but it’s hard to see him bridging the five lengths by which he trailled Palace Pier in France. Nazeef, a stablemate of the favourite, has done well to get two Group Ones against fillies and coped with testing ground last time, though she was helped by racing against the stands’ rail. Continue reading…
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