Horse racing Lucky 15 – Friday’s top selections

With three winners tipped at each meeting – Epsom, Doncaster, Carlisle and Newbury – plus two winners on each card at Newmarket and Leopardstown on Thursday, you already know the best place to come for the most authoritative (and free) racing suggestions. 

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Take a look at our Lucky 15 selections (four singles, six doubles, four trebles and a four-fold) for the British meetings on Friday, July 8, 2016.

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LUCKY 15 SELECTIONS

BLETCHLEY (Newmarket 3.45) has a decent chance of landing the Group 2 Duchess Of Cambridge Stakes for Ralph Beckett. The daughter of Makfi scored on her 5f Nottingham debut, despite showing signs of inexperience and took a step up in class in her stride on her next outing, when beaten a short-head over the extra furlong, coming from off the pace to get involved. There is no reason why she will not take another step forward and while this is more competitive still, this ground is likely to be ideal.

USHERETTE (Newmarket 4.15) can score for the seventh time in an eight-race career in the Group 1 Falmouth Stakes. Andre Fabre’s Shamardal filly won both the 1m1f Group 2 Dahlia Stakes on the Rowley Mile in May and followed up back at a mile in the Group 2 Duke Of Cambridge Stakes at Royal Ascot last time (the re-opposing Always Smile well held). She was a little edgy in the preliminaries at Ascot but backers rarely had a moments’ worry, despite idling once eased down. Better ground will suit her, even though she handles cut underfoot.

CAMARGUE (Chester 7.20) went to Royal Ascot with connections quietly confident of a decent run in the Queen Mary. They had every reason to, given she had shown plenty in defeat at Wolverhampton (not jockey Joe Fanning’s finest hour) and subsequently scored at Ascot with ease. However, she found Lady Aurelia much too good in that Group 2, but the feeling is the soft ground may have been a factor and she is probably a lot better than she showed that day. Mark Johnston’s filly runs in the 5f conditions race and should be the one to beat.

LONDON PROTOCOL (York 5.05) made much of the running in a well-contested 7f handicap at Sandown last Saturday off the same mark of 87 that he goes off today. The rain softened ground made it a slog and yet while pulling hard in the early stages, he saw out the hill well, finishing third. As long as those exertions have not taken an undue toll, the Karl Burke-trained three-year-old would look to hold a reasonable chance of making the frame again in this 7f apprentices’ handicap.

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OTHER SELECTIONS

NEWMARKET: 2.05 Hyde Park, 2.40 Clear Water, 3.10 Permission, 3.45 BLETCHLEY (NAP), 4.15 Usherette (nb), 4.45 High Grounds, 5.20 Chief Whip

ASCOT: 2.30 Seven Heavens, 3.00 Kody Ridge, 3.35 Steve Rogers, 4.10 Indira, 4.40 Young John, 4.15 War Story, 5.50 Ttainted Love

YORK: 1.50 Indie Rock, 2.20 Katrine, 2.55 Lathom, 3.30 Woody Bay, 4.00 Behsharah, 4.30 Argus, 5.05 London Protocol

MUSSELBURGH: 2.10 Little Belter, 2.50 Heatongrad, 3.25 Forecaster, 3.55 Henry Smith, 4.25 I’ll Be Good, 4.55 Giant Redwood, 5.30 Dasheen

CHEPSTOW: 6.05 Taurian, 6.35 Her Terms, 7.05 Quckaswecan, 7.35 Bushwise, 8.05 Peak Storm, 8.35 Lady Bayside, 9.05 Four Poets

CHESTER: 6.05 Mitchum, 6.50 Cullingworth, 7.20 Camargue, 7.50 Grapevine, 8.20 This Is For You, 8.50 My Target, 9.20 Margeno

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