Sandown's G3 bet365 Gordon Richards S. is one of those races that Sir Michael Stoute likes to target with his returning stable stars and the leading trainer with eight wins could be extending that sequence on Friday as 'TDN Rising Star' Crystal Ocean (GB) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) comes back to the fray. Sir Evelyn De Rothschild's homebred took the 12-furlong G3 Gordon S. at Glorious Goodwood in August before finishing second in the G1 St Leger at Doncaster in September, with his trainer always keen to stress that he was a work in progress. He faces a race-fit rival in The Queen's Fabricate (GB) (Makfi {GB}), who is unbeaten in three starts at this trip and looked a revelation when beating another Stoute trainee in Autocratic (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) with authority in Kempton's Listed Magnolia S. on Mar. 31.
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