Kaieteur for Champion

RACING: Connections of Kaieteur are considering a possible tilt at the The Food Island Champion Stakes at Leopardstown next month with the colt.

The Brian Meehan-trained four-year-old dead-heated for third place - promoted to joint second - behind the subsequently disqualified Storming Home in last weekend's Arlington Million in Chicago.

Storming Home was adjudged to have interfered with Meehan's charge and the other joint-third Paolini and was demoted to fourth with the race being awarded to Sulamani, who challenged on the outside avoiding the trouble.

"He came back last Tuesday. He travelled really well," Meehan said yesterday. "The plans are very open at the moment. I think we'll probably consider the Irish Champion Stakes or we might wait until the English Champion."

He said: "If Storming Home had run straight the other day we would have beaten Sulamani and that puts him that category. Falbrav did his form good the other day so he stacks up with them."

Bank Holiday Monday in Britain sees the usual plethora of meetings. Almost 70 races in the space of four hours ensure plenty of betting opportunities - and plenty of losing chances!

However, there is money to be made in the day's main handicap, the Tote Exacta Sprint Stakes over Epsom's five-furlong course.

Whistler hails from the in-form yard of Milton Bradley, a man who can do no wrong this season and saddled his first Group One runner last week, when The Tatling finished second to Oasis Dream in the Nunthorpe.

The Tatling's stablemate has a progressive profile and has ran consistently well in competitive sprints all summer. He now runs off a mark of 82 following a win on his penultimate start at Haydock, when beating Dubaian Gift.

Whistler broke the track record on that occasion, but went on to put up a slightly below-par performance at Newbury, where the race was not quite run to suit.

Whistler deserves a good handicap success and it can come his way today