Heavens open to improvement

The Lancashire Oaks (2.55) at Haydock has attracted a really good field of fillies and odds of 4-1 field highlight the openness of the race.

Michael Bell's Set To Music is marginal favourite and she returned to winning ways when scoring at Warwick last time. Prior to that she was beaten by one of today's rivals, Shimmering Surf, over course and distance.

That race was run on good to firm ground and there is a case to say that the winner got first run over the runner-up, who found a little trouble in the homestraight.