Turpin an each-way robbery in Lockinge

CANFORD CLIFFS, long the apple of trainer Richard Hannon’s eye, makes his anticipated seasonal return in this afternoon’s Lockinge Stakes at Newbury and, though now in his third year on the track, the Everleigh enthusiasm for the colt is, if anything, on the increase.

But that shouldn’t be of concern to punters, who must take only fact and form into consideration when seeking the winner of today’s race, which is the only Group 1 race on the calendar confined to older horses.

Canford Cliffs was a brilliant winner of the Coventry Stakes as a two-year-old but disappointed when beaten on his final start of that season. Touched off in last year’s Greenham and 2000 Guineas, where he was behind stable companion and fellow Lockinge hopeful Dick Turpin both times, he rediscovered the winning thread with a smooth success in the Irish 2000 Guineas.