Conor Fennelly

1 week ago | racingpost.com | Robbie Wilders |Conor Fennelly

Royal Ascot’s two-year-old races are skewed towards precocious sprinters. You will find none of those in the Chesham, a home for future milers and middle-distance horses.   In the past four runnings we have seen a Derby runner-up (Lazy Griff), Yorkshire Oaks winner (Content) and two Huxley winners (Point Lonsdale and The Foxes). Before that we were introduced to household names Churchill, Masar and Pinatubo. Moments Of Joy is Aidan O’Brien’s only runner and that holds weight.

1 week ago | racingpost.com | Graeme Rodway |Conor Fennelly

Signora has to be the starting point in the Albany, although her sister Exactly's best came over further than this trip, so legitimate questions can be posed about whether she will be quick enough to win at six. She found things happening too fast at Naas on her debut last month, but was pitched in at the deep end in a Group 3 and kept on into third. She went off 12-1, so outran expectations, with the Ryan Moore-ridden stablemate and 4-5 favourite Simply Astounding fifth.

1 week ago | racingpost.com | Graeme Rodway |Conor Fennelly

How many horses genuinely stay nowadays? It might seem a basic question, but it’s a relevant one given how the breeding industry has recently shifted toward speed. The best horse in this race, both on BHA figures and Racing Post Ratings, is Devil’s Advocate, but what are the chances he will stay a mile and three-quarters? He is by the miler Too Darn Hot, who has had only 34 runners in races over more than a mile and a half and eight winners.

3 weeks ago | racingpost.com | Conor Fennelly

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3 weeks ago | racingpost.com | Conor Fennelly

It is five years since Serpentine won one of the most peculiar Derbys in memory when Emmet McNamara blasted around Epsom on the 25-1 shot in what turned out to be an unassailable lead at a spookily silent Epsom in the midst of the Covid pandemic. It was McNamara's first ride in the Derby and his mount's first effort outside maiden company having got off the mark at the third attempt at the Curragh eight days earlier.