Jim Crowley: ‘I’ve always felt Molatham had the pace for six furlongs.’

Jadhlaan is a Shadwell home bred with a lovely pedigree, and Mark Johnston’s always know the time of the day when they make their racecourse debut, so this is another exciting ride to look forward to.

A few of these do have racecourse experience though, and of the ones to have run, Second Wind was a winner at Yarmouth, so he probably sets a decent enough standard, and we’ll certainly find out plenty about Jadhlaan here.

Jim looks ahead to the Epsom Derby

We’ll see more Epsom clues at York this week, with the Dante the big Derby trial here, but of the trials we’ve seen so far, I was most impressed by Bolshoi Ballet’s victory at Leopardstown last Sunday. He put in a good time, he put plenty of distance between himself and the rest, and it was a performance that fully deserved him to be made favourite for the Derby.

Watching the trials at Chester and Lingfield, and the 2000 Guineas, I didn’t see a performance that made me think, there’s a Derby winner, but Bolshoi Ballet did impress me.

We’ll have to see if anything comes out of the Dante, but I couldn’t be happier with Mohaafeth and it looks as if he will be one of the leading contenders for Epsom, in terms of the betting at least.

Jim

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