Friday Racing

If you followed Paul’s tip, and had an eachway punt on All My Loving, congratulations as it came in a useful third

Epsom

The ground will of course play a major part in this year’s proceedings and it is merely a massive guess as to how some of these unfurnished fillies will act on the terrain. So despite a short priced favourite for the Oaks at 4.05 in PASSAGE OF TIME, this remains a mightily open classic.

For me Henry Cecil’s charge won the Musidora at York in emphatic fashion, but would she have found much more in the finish had her none staying rival headed her inside the closing stages? For me the jury is still out on that one which makes me support many of my esteemed fellow pundits in the belief that a price in the region of 13/8 is a bit too short for the taking.

But like in the Derby there are plenty of question marks about many of the other leading contenders.

Will the ground be too slow and therefore dent the natural speed of Dalvina, Four Sins and Cheshire Oaks’ winner Light Shift?

Are the unexposed sorts Measured Tempo and to a lesser extent Dance of Light up to finding the necessary improvement to bridge the class gap with the market leader?

And can a filly that showed so much speed over a mile on fast ground, see out this demanding test on soft ground over 12 furlongs? The lady in question being Simply Perfect.

For me the best alternative, bearing in mind the conditions, has to be the Irish raider ALL MY LOVING.

She couldn’t really get into her stride fully when second to Light Shift in the Cheshire Oaks at Chester and is sure to go close to turning over that rival over this extra quarter mile on the softer ground. And at four times the price of Passage of Time is arguably way too big with plenty of improvement left in the locker.