Today's early value bet

Mount Moriah, who had the misfortune to bump into John Gosden’s handicap good thing Outre Mer (now rated 86) at Nottingham last month, meets nothing of that calibre here and will be hard to beat.

It’s possible that 1m2f may have stretched his stamina at such an early stage of his career, and the drop to a stiff mile looks firmly in his favour.

Ralph Beckett sends just one runner on the long trip north, and it’s unlikely he has any concerns about soft ground otherwise he surely wouldn't have declared Mount Moriah.