Dettori best option

Frankie Dettori looks the man to follow in each of the three black type races at Leopardstown today.

Apart from Daylami in the big race, he will also be in charge of Lochangel in the Group Three Flying Five and Strategic in the Listed Trigo Stakes. Both should be hard to beat.

Lochangel, a Group One scorer in last year's Nunthorpe, has not been in the same kind of form this season since being slightly unlucky in Royal Ascot's Kings Stand Stakes.

British trained horses have won the last four runnings of this race, including last year with Tedburrow, and even with Lochangel not being at her best recently, she looks a different class to most of those.

Best of the home team should be Timote who ran a fine race in the King George at Goodwood last time out. She gets just 1lb from the two-year-old Lochangel however and that makes it a tough assignment.

John Oxx's Strategic made a belated winning debut at the Curragh before running a blinding race to finish just half a length off Zomaradah in the Royal Whip with the Group Two winning Polaire six lengths back in third.

Further improvement cannot be ruled out from this colt and if that is the case the likes of the Cork winner Seasonal Style and the Brownstown Stakes scorer Castle Quest will find this task stiff in the extreme.

Dermot Weld runs three in the £75,000 Tote Handicap including the two topweights, Tarry Flynn and Free To Speak. Pat Smullen has chosen to ride the consistent Free To Speak but Smullen has got it wrong more than once this season and preference here is for the chance of Social Harmony.

The five-year-old won very impressively off a big weight at the Galway festival, is a confirmed seven furlong performer and should not be inconvenienced by any ground conditions. He could also initiate a double for Weld whose course winner Gold Chaser, now in the colours of Mike Watt, returns off a mark of 69 for the nine furlong handicap.