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Selections for Pontefract and Windsor make up Monday's trio of bets...


Mick Channon has two of the remaining three runners in the third race on this afternoon's Pontefract card, but neither have the potential of Sans Loi. Alan McCabe's juvenile created a big impression when justifying strong market support in a maiden at Nottingham over this trip earlier in the month, quickening clear in good style, and he's a confident selection to bounce back after finding the Group-race intensity of the Norfolk Stakes at Royal Ascot just too much for him last time.

The next race is a different scenario, with a bigger field of sprint handicappers, but the case is just as compelling for the Sir Michael Stoute's Entitled, who makes plenty of appeal at 3.25. She's up against several progressive rivals, not least James Fanshawe's Mosaicist, but the manner in which Ryan Moore's mount cut through the field at York (after a slow start) to catch the thriving Collect Art suggests she's well capable of following up from today's 8 lb higher mark.

Miss Topsy Turvy was still green when staying on powerfully to score at Salisbury last month, the style of that success suggesting she was a three-year-old to keep on side, but things went awry at Nottingham last time when the John Dunlop-trained runner lost all chance with a slow start. Clearly after that there is a certain element of risk attached with supporting her at Windsor tonight, but if she breaks on terms this time she'll soon be trading a lot shorter than 5.8.


Recommendations

Back Sans Loi @ 2.02 Pontefract 15.15
Back Entitled @ 3.25 Pontefract 15.45
Back Miss Topsy Turvy @ 5.8 Windsor 20.40


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