Good Girl has strong claim

Good Girl can prove best in the £135,000 Weatherbys Super Sprint to give Tim Easterby his second success in the last four years…

Good Girl can prove best in the £135,000 Weatherbys Super Sprint to give Tim Easterby his second success in the last four years in the five-furlong dash at Newbury today.

Easterby sent out Flanders from his Malton yard to take the honours in 1998 but suffered a reverse 12 months ago when hot favourite Romantic Myth was turned over.

Now Good Girl can put that particular record straight, and the daughter of College Chapel goes to the Berkshire track with strong claims.

Improving on each run, she captured the Listed Hilary Needler Trophy at Beverley last month in game style by a neck from Roundtree and finished a highly-creditable fifth to Queen's Logic in the Group Three Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot.

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That run gives her a big chance from stall 15 here, and off 8st 5lb with Michael Roberts in the saddle, she seems sure to give a good account of herself.

Last year's Vodafone Derby runner-up Sakhee can make a triumphant return from injury in the Listed Steventon Stakes.

This will be the four-year-old's first run under the Godolphin banner, having been previously trained by John Dunlop for Hamdan Al Maktoum.

Sadly his three-year-old career was cut short after he finished fourth to Giant's Causeway in the Coral-Eclipse Stakes last July.

He was favourite for the Sandown contest on the strength of his run behind Sinndar at Epsom and is a horse of the highest quality.

A knee injury has prevented him from competitive action so far this term, but his class can carry him through today.

Superstar Leo, last year's Sprint heroine, ran her best race this term when chasing home Danehurst at Chester last Saturday.

William Haggas' sprinter was the top juvenile filly of last season, when she won five times, and she tackles six furlongs in the Ruinart Champagne Stakes.

This will be her first try at the trip since finishing second to Minardi at Leopardstown last season and a big run is expected.

Ranin has gone from strength to strength this season and looks a good bet in the Desmond Cracknell Memorial Aphrodite Stakes at Newmarket.

The Ed Dunlop-trained filly graduated from winning a Newbury handicap last month to finishing four-lengths second to Sacred Song in the Lancashire Oaks at Haydock two weeks ago.

That was a fine effort in that Group Three event on rain-softened ground and she seems sure to figure in the shake-up in this Listed contest.

The Sir Michael Stoute-trained Dress Rehearsal looks fairly treated for his handicap bow in the Food Brokers Animal Health Trophy Rated Stakes over a mile.