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July Cup tips and predictions: Inisherin the choice
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The July Cup is the main attraction for racing fans this weekend with the Group 1 sprint at 4.35pm on Saturday the feature race at Newmarket’s three-day July Festival.
A field of 12 contenders has been declared for this 6f event, worth just over £340k to the winner, and they are headlined by Inisherin, a spectacular Royal Ascot victor last month for trainer Kevin Ryan.
Enda McElhinney has a selection and next-best pick for the July Cup at HQ.
July Cup tips
- Selection: Inisherin @ 9/4 with Tote
- Next best: Art Power @ 33/1 with Tote
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Inisherin can be king of the sprinters
The Commonwealth Cup hero INISHERIN heads the dozen-strong field for the Group 1 July Cup Stakes and trainer Ryan’s charge could be about to stamp his authority on the division.
The Shamardal colt only ran once last season, finishing second behind Bellum Justum in a mile novice here on the Rowley course.
A winner at Newcastle on the Tapeta over the same trip in March, he was kept to the mile for the 2,000 Guineas here in early May, finishing an honourable sixth.
Connections then opted to go sprinting and were rewarded with a stylish success in the Sandy Lane Stakes at Haydock, as Inisherin beat Orne and Vandeek with plenty to spare.
Any notions that his performance on Merseyside was a flash in the pan were thoroughly dispelled at Royal Ascot, where Tom Eaves’s partner responded generously when asked to go and win that three-year-old Group 1 by a significant margin. Now he faces the best of the older generation in receipt of his 3lb allowance.
He may not need the concession. He is excelling at the trip, has Newmarket experience and should take to this track. He can stay unbeaten as a thriving sprinter.
Selection: Inisherin @ 9/4 with Tote
Rest of the young pretenders could struggle
Inisherin is one of four three-year-olds in the line-up and the remainder – Vandeek, River Tiber and Jasour – have work on their hands to catch up now.
Vandeek was four lengths behind at Haydock – the only defeat of his career. He was outstanding last season but has something to prove now.
Last year’s Coventry winner River Tiber drops in trip here. He was twice defeated by Vandeek in the autumn and is the sole representative for Aidan O’Brien, winner of this race in 2018 and 2019.
Jasour won a Commonwealth Cup Trial at Ascot in May but was no better than third in the real thing last time.
Place beckons for Art Power
Tim Easterby’s charge ART POWER has tried and failed twice before in the July Cup, with a brace of fourths.
It has been a theme of his career. He banged on the door in Group 1s for a long time before finally getting his big moment at Ascot on Champions Day last season, mowing down today’s rival Kinross in the final strides.
His first two outings this term were fine, at York and then the Curragh, as he finished a length off Mitbaahy and Regional in the Greenlands Stakes in Ireland.
Properly fast ground has never been his thing and so his sub-par run in the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes at Ascot last time is easy to forgive.
With “soft” featuring in the going description now, the seven-year-old should give his running in this race again and could belatedly find the frame.
Selection: Art Power @ 33/1 with Tote
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