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Preview of this weekend’s racing with Farringdon: September 28-29
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Babouche, July 21, 2024

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ARGUABLY the most difficult handicap of the entire flat season, the 35-runner Cambridgeshire handicap (Newmarket, 3.40), is a huge conundrum and the key for me is either finding an unexposed three-year-old or a late maturing older horse.

However, that is far from the end of solving this cavalry charge as the draw is always important, as will this year be the state of the ground with the area around the Suffolk track set to be hit by plenty of rain at the back end of the week.

Luckily the forecast suggests we will be in for a dry Saturday and we know how quickly the course dries out, being exposed and on a sand surface. I expect that there will be at least some give in the ground so hopefully not too many of the final entries will be inconvenienced by radical ground conditions.

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