Hugo Palmer: I’m hoping we have him in peak form for this

Top trainer and Coral ambassador Hugo Palmer discusses his two runners at Newmarket and York on Saturday.

We had five runners at Chester on Saturday which we were really looking forward to, but sadly that meeting has fallen victim to the weather, but I think Chester always knew it was a risk holding a meeting this late in the year being so close to the River Dee.

I was also going to run Watcha Matey at Newmarket, but the ground has got pretty testing down there in the last 24 hours, and we know he prefers top of the ground, so we’ve decided to take him out.

We only have the two runners on Saturday now, but Zoffee is one of my favourite horses in the yard, and Wonder Kid is a young horse I’m really looking forward to, so hopefully they’ll both run big races.

2.40 Newmarket – Zoffee

He obviously ran really well in this race last year, so we’ve had it on our radar for a while to bring him back, and I’m looking forward to running him again. Frankie Dettori got off him that day and said he stayed well, ran a really good race, but just needs to come down in the weights a little bit.

We do come here off the same mark as last year, but since then he has run a career-best when he was second in the Chester Cup, so hopefully he can go even closer this time round.

Following that run in the Chester Cup, he did very well at Royal Ascot but didn’t quite stay over two and a half miles, then we ran him back too quickly in the Northumberland Plate after that, so I think he’s probably fared better than the bare result on a few of his runs this year.