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Kik-start your weekend by backing Charlton star in John Of Gaunt cracker

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GIVE the bookies a Kik where it hurts in the Betfred John Of Gaunt Stakes.

This Haydock Group 3 is likely to be run at a fierce gallop with a stack of pacesetters in the field. That should set things up nicely for KIKKULI (3.33).

He ran classy Haatem to a shorthead in the Jersey Stakes at last year's Royal Ascot and he was beaten only half a length in the Hungerford Stakes later in the summer.

Harry Charlton's (right) runner - a half-brother of Frankel - was fourth behind Alyanaabi on his return to action three weeks ago but that small field did not play to his strengths.