Hugo Palmer Saturday runners blog: 'I expect her to be thereabouts'

Hugo Palmer is back with an exclusive Coral blog, with the top trainer running us through his Saturday runners at York, Newmarket and Chelmsford.

She has been placed in a few stakes races but has yet to win one of these. We are hopeful she can prevail at this level. The ground should not be a problem for her at York. It will be on the soft side, but I think she will go through it fine. I expect her to be thereabouts at the finish.

We were disappointed with him in the Champagne Stakes. I’ve not been able to put my finger on why he ran so badly. He is back on slower ground here and I think he should be a different prospect. It is a small field, and I suspect Jamie Spencer will be at the front end of the field with him. He is in good order, and a step up to 1m may bring some improvement out of him.

He ran a brilliant race at the Curragh last time in the National Stakes, despite it not panning out well for us. He got taken on early by the Ballydoyle pacemaker, who reopposes here. I was delighted with the way he battled to the finish line.

 There should be plenty of early pace in this race as The Lion In Winter made his own running in the Acomb Stakes. Seagulls Eleven has come on well for his run at the Curragh. He needs to find something on ratings with The Lion In Winter and Shadow Of Light, but he is a lovely horse and it would be no surprise if he stepped up again.