Huge Palmer blog: ‘I’d say he’s our best chance of the week’

Coral ambassador Hugo Palmer presents another exclusive blog looking at the runners at Chester tomorrow, where his ‘best chance of the week’ is competing.

She’s a lovely filly Victoria Falls, and as well as going on any ground, she has the most wonderful attitude, so she certainly deserves to win more races.

This is a very competitive race with plenty of prize money on offer, but I just have a suspicion she’s improved from four to five, so she could go well.

She has a lovely draw, Hayley Turner is on board, and conditions should be absolutely fine, so I’m really looking forward to running her.

Victoria Falls odds: 20/1

Box To Box loves Chester, and I don’t think he’s ever ran a bad race there. He probably just found the ground a bit too soft for him at this meeting last year, but he still ran an admirable race, and the quicker conditions on Friday should be very much to his liking.

He will need to run a career-best on here to win off a mark of 94, but he’s a big horse who’s run well in Bahrain this year, and with the assistance of the champion jockey in the saddle, he might just be up to winning again.

Box To Box odds: 7/1

Solent Gateway has had his wind tweaked again after a few disappointing efforts, and hopefully that can have the same positive effect as when he had his wind done last year.

He was very keen last time we ran him in the Chester Cup when we tried to hold him up, so I think we’ll be a bit more forward on him this time, and he has the ideal draw to hopefully be ping the gates and be very positive.

He was still there with chance despite pulling so hard last time he ran in the race, so if he relaxes and drops the bit this year, then I think he can run a really big race.

Solent Gateway odds: 14/1