Grey eminence

CHAMP TO LAND ANOTHER BIG PRIZE

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STAY loyal to the brilliant combination of Olly Murphy and Sean Bowen when they team up with RESPLENDENT GREY (3.00) in the feature Fitzdares Fleur De Lys Chase at Windsor this afternoon.

Much was expected of this eight-year-old in the Coral Gold Cup at Newbury for which he went off the 9-1 fourth favourite, but last year’s Bet365 Gold Cup winner was never travelling under the champion jockey and Bowen accepted his fate some way from home.

Given time to recover from that run, I fancy a fast-run race on stamina-sapping ground over this intermediate trip will suit and he is taken to reverse Sandown Park form with Handstands.