Candleford can strike on Goodwood return

David Milnes

ROYAL ASCOT winner Candleford is fancied to make a successful reappearance in the Listed William Hill Tapster Stakes at Goodwood on Sunday.

William Haggas may well miss the royal meeting this time around with the five-yearold, who has been shaping well in his recent work on the Al Bahathri Polytrack.

Last year’s Duke of Edinburgh Handicap winner goes well fresh and is expected to be suited by the likely fast ground this weekend.

Also on the Sussex Downs, Al Asifah can build on her winning debut when she steps up in class for the Listed Weatherbys/British EBF Agnes Keyser Fillies’ Stakes.

John and Thady Gosden’s classy type had been ticking all the right boxes at home before her easy defeat of Anjo Bonita at Haydock last month.

The daughter of Frankel has come out of that four-and-three-quarter-length win in great shape and is expected to make up into a nice type over 1m4f this summer.

Sir Mark Prescott can do no wrong at present and expect his Trooper Bisdee to follow up his recent Yarmouth win when he heads to Bath on Friday for the aceodds.com Bet Calculator Handicap.

The chestnut son of Australia benefited from astepupintripto1m3 ½f on the Norfolk coast that day when scoring in textbook Heath House fashion.

The three-year-old has a 6lb penalty to shoulder for that first victory and is expected to follow up at likely short odds.

Earlier at Thirsk, Richard Spencer’s Naomi Lapaglia can step up on her comeback run in the 1,000 Guineas when she tackles the Every Race Live On Racing TV Fillies’ Novice Stakes.

The daughter of Awtaad finished 17th of the 20 runners in the Classic, but is better than that.

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