Trainer Roger Varian has issued an upbeat bulletin about Barsanti prior to his appearance in the eight-runner Group 2 Princess Of Wales’s Arqana Racing Club Stakes, one of numerous highlights on the first day of the three-day Moët & Chandon July Festival at Newmarket’s Adnams July Course on Thursday (12th July).

Iain Jardine has given Ebor winner Nakeeta the go-ahead to contest the Emirates Melbourne Cup.

Finals Day at Flemington is one of the better punting days of the year and in 2017 the card looks deep and full of good betting races once again.

Aidan O'Brien wins his sixth race of the Royal Meeting, the one mile four furlong G2 Hardwicke Stakes, with Idaho. The success sealed victory in the 2017 QIPCO Royal Ascot trainers' title for the Ballydoyle trainer.

Roger Varian has well and truly broken free of the virus shackles as Barsanti defied top weight in the Sky Bet First Race Special Stakes at York.