Given the way the modern jockey jets around to honour his commitments, anyone earwigging an interview between John Dunlop and the media will back Claxon for the Vodafone Oaks on June 4th.
Pat Eddery partnered the filly to victory in the Victor Chandler Lupe Stakes at Goodwood yesterday, the final recognised trial for Epsom, and said he would make it there by foot to take the ride.
Bookmakers revised the odds of Claxon, giving Dunlop his fifth Lupe in eight years - he won the 1994 race with her dam, Bulaxie - to 8 to 1 after she had made the running under Eddery to beat Musical Treat by two and a half lengths.
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