Lover's Leap ready to win her first handicap

Jump in for Lover's Leap in today's Tote Trifecta Stakes at Goodwood. Henry Candy never rushes his string so it is highly interesting that he has pitched her into this hot handicap after just three outings in maiden company.

She has presumably come out of her seasonal debut race two weeks ago in good order and the form of that fourth to Crystal Creek at Kempton suggests she is well treated. She was also a solid second to Culzean at Leicester last term, and a tentative line through that one gives her the beating of Bring Sweets on Bath form behind Deal Fair.

With the Kempton outing behind her, Lover's Leap ought to strip fitter here and can take this competitive event.

Dubai Millennium can strengthen his Derby credentials by winning the £32,500 Compass UK Leisure Predominate Stakes. The colt overcame supposedly unfavourable conditions on his Doncaster reappearance to strengthen Godolphin's powerful Classic hand.

Sheikh Mohammed's team has already helped itself to the Newmarket 2,000 Guineas courtesy of Island Sands. Now, with Dubai Millennium as well as Adair, it has high hopes of securing success in the Epsom Derby.

Dubai Millennium, a winner on soft going on his only previous outing, was uneasy in the betting market for a stakes race run on fastish ground at Doncaster, drifting to 4 to 5 before eventually settling at 4 to 6.

But the colt's supporters had little to worry about in the race as he proceeded to hammer his three rivals. In front from the start, he stretched clear in good style in the straight to defeat Ettrick by nine lengths.

Dubai Millennium now has the options of the English Derby or French and Irish versions. But another authoritative performance - which he ought to register today - should put him firmly on course for Epsom.

Floating Charge, a cheeky winner at Windsor last month, has the scope to defy a 7lb rise in the weights in the £10,000-added Chichester Festival Theatre Stakes.

Gaelic Storm will be a warm order for the £10,000-added Forest Alliance Conditions Stakes but he looks worth opposing with Clive Brittain's Lone Piper, who won a similar contest to this on his second start last season.

There will be plenty of well-touted newcomers in the Anne Frances Stevens Memorial Maiden which should ensure a good price about Alfie Lee.

Conrad Allen has run the juvenile in two conditions events and his charge was far from disgraced either time, behind the good pair First Blood and Optimaite who are both Royal Ascot-bound.