Clive Cox

Scoville, who we've seen on back-to-back ITV cards, 6-1 and drifting.

11-2, Blue Courvoisier for Clive Cox and Russell Ryan.

And eights, Barr.

What are you thinking, Ruby?

We've got a jam-packed show coming your way today.

We're going to start at Haydock for the Spring Cup meeting, where we'll hear from Tom Markland, Clive Cox and Tom Fanshawe.

Then it's on to Kempton, where Constitution Hill will be making his third start on the flat.

We'll hear from Nicky Henderson and also Owen Burrows, who trains the favourite in that ultra-competitive September Stakes.

He's just a horse that's in a very good spot.

And to be honest with you, I can't pinpoint the exact reason why it's this time of year that he comes good, but we're certainly looking forward to seeing how we get on on Saturday

So conditions sound like they're going to suit Almarac and kind of blue but what about Koppel because we've never seen him on a slow surface and so earlier this morning I put a call into his trainer Clive Cox to find out

Yeah I'm concerned and it's unknown territory for us he's very proven on a quicker surface That said, his pedigree does have ingredients that we could cope.

5-2 about the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes winner Almarac for Tom Marcon and William Haggis.

fours for kind of blue winner of the champion sprint a couple years ago nine to two for koppel hex crouch and clive cops fives marvelman a really good run at york in the city of york last time out eights for last year's winner big mojo 70 to 2 for payboros 12s american affair also a group one winner 25s james's delight and 28 to 1 outsider of the nine is a ram ram Graham, we'll come to you first.

It's been a merry-go-round again in the sprinting division this year, especially over six furlongs.

Are we going to see another shock or is someone finally going to stamp their authority in this division?

But nonetheless, there are structural flaws that need to be aired.

And if you're Clive Cox, who's won it for the last three years, or if you're one of the syndicates like Kennet Valley or Midland Park, you've had a lot of success.

It's fantastic for them.

And that is the counter.

Elsewhere, I thought Ride of the Day went to Ross O'Ryan on Bleu Covoisier, again, partly because of my pocket talking there, but stacked them up and grounded out from the front.

Yeah, again, this is the thing that, obviously it is tough racing, it's really competitive stuff, but again, William Haggis, Andrew Balding, Michael Dodds winning a sprint, Wesley Ward winning with a five furlong speedball, Clive Cox winning a three-year-old handicap, Joseph O'Brien winning with a well-bred, unraced two-year-old.

It's, yeah, sort of same trainers, same pedigrees, all that kind of stuff come to the fore at the big meetings.

Yeah, which is why these days, I mean, I don't think the competition, the depth of good horses is not that much.