Lightning shock on the cards

In a July Cup where there are plenty of obvious questions and not a lot of obvious answers, Rogue Lightning can give his backers a run for their money at huge odds.

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Much of the discussion around the prestigious six-furlong sprint this year surrounds last year’s 2000 Guineas winner Notable Speech coming back in trip. He has been supplemented which suggests he is firing and ready to go, but it still seems quite an odd move.

He might just prove the best horse in the race, of course, but there are plenty of others with chances and Rogue Lightning is not out of it. His three-year-old campaign was a good one, and while he has not hit the heights since being sold for £1million, he has not been a million miles away, either.

On his penultimate start he was just denied in a Grade Two at Keeneland, before failing to produce the same level of form when staying Stateside to run at Churchill Downs.

A sound surface will suit and funnily enough he is a course and distance winner, having impressed on his two-year-old debut back in June 2022.