Eyecatching prep and return of headgear point to improving six-year-old

Blue De Vega
1.50 Doncaster
1pt each-wayCoologue
2.05 Newbury
1pt each-wayKynren
2.25 Doncaster
2pts each-wayKalahari Queen
3.15 Newbury
1pt each-wayLeader Writer
3.35 Doncaster
2pts each-wayBookmakers must love the start of the Flat. Nearly every year a 32Red Lincoln (3.35 Doncaster) contender is talked up as a potential Group horse and nearly every year it gets beat at single-figure odds.

The gamble of midweek was Fire Brigade, with Ryan Moore having accepted a ride on a horse beaten by one he rode in Newmarket’s Silver Cambridgeshire last year and who reopposes.

That one is Addeybb and don’t be surprised if the market flip-flops in his favour as despite jockey bookings – James Doyle is hardly a negative – all the gossip is about the blistering piece of work he is supposed to have done at an awayday at Chelmsford recently.