Horse Racing Tips: Rory Delargy’s Saturday selections at Newmarket

Rory bagged a brace on Saturday and on Sunday he likes Majestic at 15:40 at Newmarket.

Rory Delargy Newmarket Sprint

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Rory Delgary’s Horse Racing Tips

13:50 Newmarket Capulet
14:25 Newmarket Sacred Angel
15:00 Newmarket Vandeek
15:40 Newmarket Majestic

*All prices are bang up to date with our snazzy widgets, while odds in copy are accurate at time of publishing but subject to change.

13:50 Newmarket – Capulet

It’s hard to get away from the claims of Capulet in the Royal Lodge, with the son of Justify a big eye-catcher when just touched off by Diego Velasquez in the Golden Fleece Stakes. He rallied gamely when passed by the well-touted winner that day, and hardly came in for the kitchen-sink treatment from Seamie.

The form of the Golden Fleece got a boost when fourth-placed Deepone won the Beresford Stakes the other day, and Capulet’s debut win at Dundalk has also been well advertised, with Nor Time Nor Tide (beaten 5¾ lengths into third there) winning both starts since, including a 0-95 classified contest last time.

Of the home challenge, I am most fearful of Roger Varian’s Al Musmak, who beat the reopposing Macduff fair and square in the Ascendant Stakes at Haydock last time, and remains with scope to do better when fully tested at 1m and beyond. His previous second to Rosallion in the Pat Eddery Stakes has been franked by the trio immediately behind him to have run since Ascot, if not the winner, and he can go close, for all that Capulet shades the overall vote.

14:25 Newmarket – Sacred Angel

Sacred Angel showed improved form when winning the Group 3 Princess Margaret Stakes at Ascot in July, and while she was strictly below that level when fourth in the Prix Morny at Deauville, I thought she enhanced her reputation in coming clear of the others in the best juvenile contest of the season to date. In finishing behind Vandeek, Ramatuelle and River Tiber, Sacred Angel lost little caste, and despite the ground being given as heavy in some places for that race, the time was quicker than any other recent running of the ‘Morny’, and the form looks absolutely copper-bottomed.

Sacred Angel was a maiden winner on quick ground on the July Course before taking the Princess Margaret Stakes, and I doubt the going will be a concern, and I suspect she would have been good enough to win the Lowther at York had she taken that path (owner Nurlan Bizakov sponsors the Prix Morny). If that were the case, then she would be a lot shorter for this than Relief Rally, who looks a rather suspect favourite for this sterner test. With track, trip and ground all ticks for Sacred Angel, I’ll be disappointed if she can’t make the frame at the very least.

15:00 Newmarket – Vandeek

Given what I’ve said above, it should be no surprise that I want to side with Vandeek in the Middle Park, and his narrow defeat of Ramatuelle in the Prix Morny is – in my view – outstanding form. The obvious question is whether he can do it on quick ground, but the fact that he recorded a time of 1m 9.84 in victory over a trip of 5f 212y would suggest that he doesn’t have nearly as much to prove on the ground as some believe.

To put that another way, I don’t believe the ground was at all soft when Vandeek won the ‘Morny’ – in the last 50 years only Arcano and Unfortunately have been more than a second faster than Vandeek’s time in the race, so either he was freakishly good, the ground was freakishly good (despite being called heavy), or a combination of the two. I’m happy with any of those answers, and hope that a bit of judicious watering means we don’t have to consider the F-word – firm.

15:40 Newmarket – Majestic

I’ll be cheering Dual Identity here as I’m on at big odds, as mentioned prior to his Sandown win early this month, but there are two horses I’ve had in mind for a saver, those being Arqoob and Majestic, with the latter being my main swing.

Drawn well in stall 29 is last year’s winner Majestic, who hasn’t added to last year’s success while largely shaping well in big-field handicaps, and he proved 12 months ago that a well-run 1m1f is absolutely what he needs, with his win last term just the second of his career, and the first in handicap company.

He does seem to lack the tactical speed to land one of the big mile handicaps in the calendar, but the Cambridgeshire has been described by three-time winner Sir Mark Prescott as a “nine-furlong sprint” and that unusual scenario clearly suits some horses better than others.

Rory Delgary’s Horse Racing Tips

13:50 Newmarket Capulet
14:25 Newmarket Sacred Angel
15:00 Newmarket Vandeek
15:40 Newmarket Majestic

*All prices are bang up to date with our snazzy widgets, while odds in copy are accurate at time of publishing but subject to change.

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