No bend concern for Canford team

CONNECTIONS of Canford Cliffs believe he is unlikely to be inconvenienced by going round a bend for the first time in Ascot’s St James’s Palace Stakes next week.

Last year’s Coventry Stakes winner finally lived up to the hype when running out a ready winner of the Irish 2000 Guineas.

He has ground to make up on his Newmarket conqueror Makfi and stablemate Dick Turpin, who has beaten him twice already this season, but Richard Hannon jnr, the trainer’s son and assistant, is feeling bullish.