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14:30 Ascot
CARDIFF BY THE SEA – 1/2 Point Each Way @ 18/1 Betfair 4 places, 16/1 4 places generally
After what O’Brien said about Charles Darwin I will chance this horse in a very tough race.
Another trained in Ireland, Fozzy Stack’s daughter of St Mark’s Basilica went off at 12/1 behind long odds-on favourite Charles Darwin in a four-runner race on debut at Naas last month. he was ultimately beaten three and a quarter lengths but showed good speed and stayed in the fight longer than one might have anticipated and there’s every chance she was brushed aside by a colt who is 13/8 for Thursday’s Norfolk Stakes and could end up near the top of the juvenile tree by the end of the season.
If Cardiff By The Sea comes on for her introduction as seems likely, she’s going to be a threat to all here, where her half-brother Al Qudra was beaten just a length in fifth behind Rashabar in last year’s Coventry.