Super six: which horses are the Racing Post team backing on Champions Day?

Clon Coulis (4.40 Ascot)

Lord North won the Cambridgeshire with any amount in hand last time out but not many win handicaps off marks as high as 110 and he should be taken on. The one I like against him is unlucky Royal Hunt Cup runner-up Clon Coulis. She hasn't been in the same form since Royal Ascot but has tumbled down the handicap as a result and takes her chance off the same mark as her run at the royal meeting. She likes soft ground and has Jamie Spencer – the master of the Ascot straight mile – in the saddle and looks a solid each-way bet with some firms paying six places.
Tom Park, Ante-post focus

Addeybb (4.00 Ascot)

The Champion Stakes doesn't have much strength in depth this year and probably revolves around the three at the head of the market, of which Addeybb stands out as the most likely winner. William Haggas' five-year-old has conditions in his favour and will appreciate the return to Ascot, where he readily cleared away from 15 rivals in the Wolferton Stakes back in June. Granted, that was only a Listed race and this is a much tougher task, but he has had a relatively light campaign and should be 100 per cent after a break.
Tom Collins, The Punt

Addeybb: has the beating of Magical according to Tom CollinsCredit: Edward Whitaker

Star Catcher (2.45 Ascot)

John Gosden has come away with a winner at every Champions Day since 2015, and while all the talk is about Stradivarius on Saturday, Star Catcher is a better-value banker. Winner of the Ribblesdale at the royal meeting in June, she has since progressed to land Group 1s in Ireland and France, and there could be more to come. You can argue her odds are a bit short on the figures, but of her main rivals, she's had the measure of Fleeting every time they've met, while stablemate Anapurna had a hard enough race in a 1m6f slog just two weeks ago.
James Hill, tipster

Sparkle Roll (2.45 Ascot)

There has been plenty of focus on Star Catcher and Anapurna but John Gosden's other runner Sparkle Roll looks a fantastic each-way shot. The three-year-old has only won a novice at Sandown this season but was less than three lengths behind Star Catcher when third in the Ribblesdale in June, and did well to take third again when navigating through traffic at Newmarket last time. Oisin Murphy is in the saddle, who has a 40 per cent strike-rate with Gosden this season, and it would be fitting that the champion jockey and champion trainer combine to score on British Champions Day.
Andrew Wilsher, reporter

One Master: has an excellent record on soft groundCredit: Edward Whitaker

One Master (1.35 Ascot)

Recorded a career-best on Racing Post Ratings when winning her second Prix de la Foret at Longchamp last time and reverts back to a bare 6f for the first time since she was a juvenile. Unbeaten with soft in the going description, she has been lightly raced compared to some of these and tends to peak at this time of year. She has a length and three-quarters to make up on Advertise on her close-up fifth in the Prix Maurice de Gheest (6½f) in August, but the ground will be an unknown for him and this filly's course form is rock solid, with a Listed win and a narrow third in the Queen Anne on her resume.
Maddy Playle, RPTV

Cape Byron (1.35 Ascot)

Roger Varian's Wokingham hero comes here in prime form and loves Ascot, with his impressive two-length success in the soft in the Group 3 Bengough Stakes over 6f a fortnight ago making it three from three at the track this season (and four in total) as the five-year-old took the step up in grade from top handicapper in his stride.
Nick Barnes, Production editor

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