This weekend is another full of interest with Smad Place in the long distance hurdle at Wetherby probably the best advice in the racing taking place on this side of the Atlantic.
The Breeders' Cup can be a graveyard for European hopes. The travelling involved, the end of a long season, the significance of the draw on American tracks and the fact that one doesn't really have proper form lines to be sure about make taking short prices about raids by our best potentially trappy. It is something of an act of faith but faith is something I do have in Excelebration (Santa Anita, 11.40 pm our time), highly consistent, genuinely top class and a complete professional in the best sense of the word who put up his best performance yet (above) last time at Ascot.
According to Aiden O'Brien, the only worry is that the QEII, pictured, was only two weeks ago.
I've taken the 11/8 already and am happy with it.
