Captain to take charge at Newmarket

THE rescheduled 3.05 Coolmore Nunthorpe Stakes at Newmarket brings together some of the season's top sprinters and, as long as there is cut in the ground, the one to side with is Captain Gerrard.

Bryan Smart's speedster won five times as a juvenile and he picked up where he left off on Newmarket's Rowley Mile in May when getting the better of Sakhee's Secret by a neck in the Palace House Stakes.

The son of Oasis Dream has only been seen in racecourse action once since then and he was not disgraced when beaten just four lengths by Marchand D'Or in the Prix du Gros-Chene at Chantilly.

His entire season thus far has been geared towards a tilt at this Group One event and he has ticks in all the right boxes.

Passage Of Time can continue her recent renaissance and present Henry Cecil with a fourth Darley Yorkshire Oaks victory in the last two decades at 2.05pm.

She is clearly in good heart at present and it would be no surprise if she were to come home in front at Headquarters.

Farringdon's Daily Double

Minkowski
Newbury 3:25 (nap)
Snowy Indian
Newbury 4:55

Houseman's Choice

Captain Gerrard
Newmarket 3:05