Row in with Teofilo in Dewhurst

TEOFILO has to be supported in a not-to-be-missed renewal of the Darley Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket today.

Jim Bolger has never been a man to call his geese swans but his charge was still allowed to go off a distant second favourite to Holy Roman Emperor in the National Stakes – despite being hailed as one of the best the County Carlow trainer has ever trained.

He never looked in danger of relinquishing his 100 per cent record in that contest, readily quickening clear from the Ballydoyle contender to win by over a length. His main market rival has since scored impressively at the Arc meeting, but that was on a very different surface and there is no reason why he should reverse the placings at Headquarters.