Marathon man: High Jinx bids to build on York return in staying event

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There was no instant success at Royal Ascot for Leicester City owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha who saw his three runners finish mid-division, rather like the former Premier League champions last season.

Straight Right (seventh), Tisbutadream (ninth) and Night Of Glory (tenth) were among six lots picked up on the eve of the fixture at the London Goffs Sale for more than £2 million for King Power Racing.

Tisbutadream ran well for a long way in the Sandringham Handicap from a bad draw and is the highest-rated filly in this Listed contest, in which she will be ridden again by Silvestre de Sousa.

The jockey said: "The form book will tell you she finished ninth, but she was drawn well away from the action and ran well. She's probably better judged on her good third to Laugh Aloud at Epsom on her previous start and I think she’ll go nicely."

Queen Of Time finished fourth in the Sandringham – a place behind Paco's Angel – where she was 3lb wrong at the weights and might have been at a disadvantage racing down the centre.

The filly had gone into the race off two wins at Goodwood and trainer Henry Candy said: "She's earned her place with that run at Ascot, where I think she could have finished a place closer."

John Gosden saddles Sandringham seventh Dancing Breeze and once-raced maiden winner Standing Rock.

"Both have run well of late and the plan is to get some black type," the trainer said. "They should be suited by the stiff mile and quick ground."

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High Jinx put a two-year absence behind him with a fine comeback run in the Yorkshire Cup in May, but the possibility of fast ground –which cost him a start in the Gold Cup – is worrying trainer Tim Easterby.

The nine-year-old won the Group 1 Prix du Cadran, when trained by James Fanshawe, in 2014 but has run only three times since.

He showed he retained his ability on his first start for Easterby when he was beaten only half a length into third behind the Queen's Dartmouth at York.

Easterby said: "I wasn't surprised at all by his run at York, although a lot of others were surprised. I thought there'd be thunderstorms but if the ground is fast he might not run.

"We were going to run him at Ascot but we thought it would be too fast for him. We thought we'd go here then go to Goodwood."

Qatar Racing's Goldmember was a progressive stayer last term who was gelded over the winter but never figured on his reappearance at the same York meeting.

Trainer David Simcock said: "He had a wind operation over the winter. Nothing really went to plan at York. He didn't really turn up. He's much better than that. His run over two miles at Newmarket at the end of last season [fourth in a Listed race] puts him right there but he's to come back to that form."