LOPE Y FERNANDEZ is the value alternative to hot favourite Palace Pier in the Group 1 Al Shaqab Lockinge Stakes (3.35) at Newbury today.
The market leader has won five of his six career starts and will be hard to beat after a runaway comeback victory at Sandown Park last month - but Lope Y Fernandez also impressed on his return to the fray.
Sent off at 4-6 for the Listed Heritage Stakes over a mile at Leopardstown 31 days ago, Aidan O’Brien's son of Lope De Vega hardly came out of second gear in strolling home by five and a half lengths.
Ryan Moore's mount came up short in eight attempts at the highest level in 2020. But he took a minor medal back to Ballydoyle on four of those occasions, and the evidence of his reappearance is that Lope Y
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