HORSES to take out of the July Cup?

The winner for starters, but you won’t be alone there. Fairyland too, the winner’s stable companion. The Kodiac filly did well to finish third, given that she raced towards the near side for most of the race. She did best by far of those horses who raced on the near side, finishing two and a half lengths clear of the next best.

As well as that, this was Fairyland’s first run over six furlongs since she won the Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes on Newmarket’s Rowley Mile course last September. As with Ten Sovereigns, her trainer tried to stretch her out to a mile, and she didn’t run badly in the 1000 Guineas at Newmarket, she was only beaten a total of just over two lengths by her stable companion Hermosa.

She ran over five at Royal Ascot, in the King’s Stand Stakes, against Blue Point and the older horses, and you suspect that, if connections hadn’t had Ten Sovereigns for the Commonwealth Cup, she would have run in that, against fellow three-year-olds.

She might have to drop back down to five furlongs again, for the King George Stakes at Goodwood, or perhaps for the Nunthorpe Stakes too, but she should be okay over five now. Like Ten Sovereigns, she looks like a sprinter.

And Glorious Journey. He wasn’t fast away, but he was fast through the early part of the race. According to the RMG sectionals, he clocked the fastest time for the second furlong, 10.55 seconds, and for the third furlong, 10.63 seconds, through a hot part of the race. And he raced towards the near side. In the circumstances, it was understandable that he faded through the final furlong and a half.

Winner of a Group 3 race at Deauville over a mile last season as a three-year-old, Charlie Appleby’s horse has improved this season at four, and since he has been gelded. He finished second to Dream Of Dreams in a six-furlong listed race at Windsor in May, and in front of The Tin Man. He was also only just beaten by Limato in the Group 3 Criterion Stakes over seven furlongs at Newmarket in June. He may be under-rated when he races next.