Bint Shadayid is hard to oppose

SAEED BIN SUROOR looks like clawing back some of Henry Cecil's lead in the trainers' championship with the possibility of three winners today. The Newmarket handler can land the day's highlight, Yarmouth's £17,000 added Listed John Musker Fillies' Stakes with Bint Shadayid.

The daughter of Nash wan showed top notch form as a juvenile when trained by John Dunlop after being hyped up even before she'd set foot on a racecourse.

She featured prominently in the ante post lists for the 1,000 Guineas over the winter, during which time she was one of a number of horses transferred to winter in Dubai.

On returning to these shores, Bint Shadayid certainly was not disgraced in the Guineas, finishing just under two lengths third of 3 to Bosra Sham. She then ran in the Irish equivalent but came home tailed off last and was subsequently found to be "clinically abnormal".

She then ran at Deauville last month when she finished a fine neck second to Bint Salsabil, only for both to be demoted a place. Bint Shadayid is very much the class act and should not be opposed.

Thirty five minutes later, bin Suroor saddles very much one of his lesser lights in Saheeel. The three year old has presumably had problems as he was well entered up last year but never saw a racecourse.

He finally appeared at Salisbury in May and was sent off a hot favourite but went down by 12 lengths to Watch Me, who went on to finish third in the Group Three Cork And Orrery Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Saheeel meets nothing of that quality here and can beat his oily serious rival, the disappointing Wollstonecraft.

Godolphin's trainer also has a fine chance of being on the mark at Sandown with Fatefully in the Surbiton Fillies' Handicap. She went down in a host of notebooks as an unlucky loser at Doncaster last time where she was hemmed in on the inside before finishing fast but too late to catch Blessed Spirit, beaten a head.

Fatefully has rather harshly been raised 5lb for that defeat but she is a tightly raced filly with plenty of scope for improvement.

Don't Get Caught has emerged from a mid summer break with a new lease of life after being confirmed in foal and is the logical choice in the Weatherbys Sponsorship in Racing Handicap.

She ran well in her first race for four months at Nottingham when third to Maple Bay and confirmed that with a clear cut win at Leicester last week, beating Sharp Monty two and a half lengths. She can overcome a 5lb penalty in a tricky race.

Alphabet should put her experience to good use in the EBF Fillies' Maiden. Her debut second to One So Wonderful can't be properly assessed yet - seven horses in the race were making their debuts - but the well bred Alphabet shaped as if well up to winning a decent maiden.