Time for Telescope to deliver

After two pleasing efforts this season, today should be the day we see what Telescope is truly made of, and he earns the nap selection to give trainer Michael Stoute his eighth victory in the Hardwicke Stakes.

The now four-year-old looked a colt of real ability when winning the second of his two juvenile starts very easily. That came at Newmarket, in what turned out to be a good maiden, and it left the impression the winner could be a Derby horse for last year.

However, he didn’t make it back to the track until July of 2013, when he won a four-runner conditions race at Leicester by no fewer than 24 lengths.