Sandown's big three-day Coral Eurobet-Eclipse meeting gets underway tomorrow but punters looking for a tasty wager on the opening day need search no further than James Fanshawe's Faraway Look in the Tote Exacta Handicap.
A unexposed, progressive son of Distant View, the four-year-old was only foiled in a hat-trick attempt by Mark Johnston's Takamaka Bay at Haydock last month. That form looks very hard to knock now that the winner has followed up with victory at Royal Ascot.
Racing up with the pace, Faraway Look was going like a winner but Johnston's charge proved a shade too resilient in the end.
He finished six-lengths clear of the remainder though and it could well have been a case of him blowing up on his first run for eight months.
His previous two runs saw him score on Wolverhampton's fibresand surface and he looks on a very attractive mark for tomorrow's 10-furlong event.
Carnival Dancer is another with a future and Sir Michael Stoute's three-year-old should be followed in the Pentax 'Under Any' Conditions Stakes.
The son of Sadler's Wells only saw a racecourse once as a youngster where he finished fourth in a useful maiden at Newmarket. He showed definite signs of ability and he wasn't given a hard time inside the last.
His one run this term came in a maiden at York where he quickened in terrific fashion when the given the office to win as he pleased in the manner of a very smart colt.
His trainer is not one to overface his runners but he obviously thinks a fair amount of this one, as his entry in next month's Group One Juddmonte International indicates.
Pride In Me was outfought over six furlongs last time after travelling nicely and should benefit from the drop to five in the Calypso Handicap.
Palanzo is a very useful sprinter on his day and will take the beating in the JJB Sports Conditions Stakes at Haydock. He is unfortunate not to be chasing a three-timer following a short-head defeat on his last start.
Bourgainville finished well clear of the rest at Ascot on his last run but found Binary File a bit too hot in the closing stages - he should gain compensation in the EBF Nightfall Classified Stakes at Salisbury.
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