Newmarket

13:50pm

Blackheath

There are a fair few positives about Blackheath. He won on his reappearance last year, 6f on quick ground are his conditions, he was improving the last time we saw him on the track, and Ed won this race last year, too. He is 2lb higher than when he was just touched off at Salisbury in October, but that was a pretty strong handicap and hopefully he will have progressed from three to four. I haven’t sat on him at home recently – though I rode him when he was narrowly beaten by a very progressive horse at Chelmsford last summer – and he looks to have a pretty good profile for this race. But it’s clearly a tough race.

Unibet are paying an EXTRA PLACE on this race.