Newmarket

With the ground a possible problem for Botanical, who was largely steered clear of good to firm by his previous stables, the way may be open for BULLET POINT to make a successful reappearance. He had two wins and two seconds over 1m in his first four races last term, despite a total of 71 rivals. Subsequent failures over 1m1f came after a two-day break in the first instance and in Australia next time. Mister Winston (for a trainer who won this race in 2021 and 2025) resumed his improvement when making a successful reappearance last month but the chief threat may emerge with a late challenge from Erzindjan, who impressively came from last to first in a 12-runner group in last year's Cambridgeshire over C&D only to find that the far-side principals had gone beyond recall.[Richard Austen]