Global dominance a shoo-in for Tiger Roll as rivals find him too darn hot
It has all the makings of a trying week. A late Easter had made a mockery of the racing calendar, with the Greenham Stakes on Saturday preceding the Craven meeting at Newmarket next week. So it is that we vault on consecutive weekends from the Grand National for grizzled veterans to a Classic trial littered with prancing unknown quantities.
Making such a major mental adjustment is not easy. A degree of disorientation is inevitable, so apologies are tendered in advance should the distinction between the two codes becomes a little blurred here.
One Saturday you’re looking for horses who will stay beyond four miles, the next you just need them to get home over seven furlongs. Having said that, the form book will be superfluous ahead of Too Darn Hot’s reappearance at Newbury. It would be the height of folly to look beyond him.
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