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Contenders readying for Britain s best night of Flat Racing
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26th May 2021
Sandown Park
By Graham Clark
Thursday 27
th May), featuring two Group Three contests and Listed action. Jockey Joe Mercer, one of the sport’s all-time greats who sadly passed away last week aged 86, will have the Group Three Coral Brigadier Gerard Stakes run in his memory. Mercer rode the great Brigadier Gerard on all of his 18 starts, with the formidable partnership winning 17 times.
It is 30 years since Sir Michael Stoute saddled the first of his record 11 winners in the Coral Brigadier Gerard Stakes with Stagecraft and the Newmarket maestro most recently sent out the 2019 scorer Regal Reality. In the 2021 running of the 10-furlong contest, Stoute will rely on
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There has been a certain keenness among bookmakers to take on Aidan O Brien s runners at Chester this week and the latest example is Armory, who was initially chalked up only second best by virtually every layer but should surely be the clear favourite here on all known form.
You wouldn t have to look too hard to find examples of O Brien-trained Group 1 performers who are undercooked for their returns as it happens regularly enough, but if this race was a handicap Armory would have to give 6lb to favourite Sangarius and upwards of 11lb to the other three.