STORMY ANTARCTIC is taken to have the last laugh on favourite King Of Comedy in the Group 3 MansionBet’s Beaten By A Head Diomed Stakes (3.35) at Newbury.
This time last year, King Of Comedy went under by just a neck in the Group 1 St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot - and a reproduction of that form will make the jolly hard to beat.
Stormy Antarctic has a 5lb penalty to carry as a result of his four-length victory in a Group 2 test at the Capannelle racecourse in Rome last May.
But my selection has five successes at today’s level or above on his CV and his record fresh - three wins and a second from his last four seasonal comebacks - suggests Tom Marqand’s mount will be ready to hit the ground running.
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