Hugo Palmer: Ground will be perfect and we’re really happy with her

She did really well in a Listed race at Vichy last time, but that was a long trip for her down there, and it took her a long time just to come back to herself. We’ve given her a few months off just to allow her to come back to form, and I must say I’m very happy with her now.

This looks a typically competitive Newmarket handicap, so you’d imagine Chelsea Green will need a career-best off a mark of 92, but she’s still fairly lightly raced, so I’d be hopeful there’s more to come from her. She seemed to stay this trip well at Vichy last time, so even though it will be a tough task giving the weight away, she carries it because technically she’s the best horse in the race, so let’s hope she can prove to be just that.

18:30 Wolverhampton – Cheshire Dancer

I must admit I find it very frustrating that the BHA refuse to give horses like Cheshire Dancer a handicap mark. We’ve played an honest hand and trained the horse to run well, and she’s run well on two occasions in races with evidence around them, so they’ve had the opportunity to give her a mark and chosen not to. We now have to do this ridiculous thing of running under a penalty, which is a difficult thing to do, but we are claiming 3lb of it back with having Taylor Fisher on board, and I do think she’s a nice filly for the future.

I see Unico and Perfect View are non-runners which is quite handy as both we’re drawn on our inside, so that will at least make life a bit easier from stall seven. Cheshire Dancer won her maiden at Beverley last time in nice style, but that was over a slightly further trip, and Beverley is a stiff track, so I’m not entirely sure how well she’ll handle coming back in trip, but we’ll just have to wait and see.

I’d have thought the horse we are going to have to beat is George Scott’s horse Seax who ran well on his first start at Ascot, but I do like our filly, and I think whatever happens here she’ll be a horse to look forward to for the future.

20:00 Wolverhampton – Glittering Choice

Glittering Choice ran so well at Carlisle in July when finishing second, but she’s run rotten races either side of that, so we’ve been scratching our heads with what to do with her. I did toy with the idea of taking the headgear off altogether, but I’ve decided to upgrade the visor to a pair of blinkers instead. When she was struggling last year, it was the fitting of cheekpieces and then a visor that saw her step forward, so I’m hoping the blinkers will have the same effect.

She’s in the horses in training sale, so I suspect whatever happens here this will be her final start for us, but it would be nice if we could send her there off the back of a win.

Hugo