Velox ‘ticks the right boxes’

Luca Cumani believes Velox ticks the right boxes as the Newmarket trainer seeks to win the Betfred Cambridgeshire for a third time at Newmarket today.

Cumani’s two wins in the prestigious autumn handicap may have come a long time ago, with Century City in 1982 and Dallas in 1986, but in Velox he has a horse with sound credentials.

Winner of the Coral Challenge over a mile at Sandown in July when his Cambridgeshire jockey, apprentice Cam Hardie, was in the saddle, the four-year-old warmed up for the big race when finishing third at Doncaster two weeks ago.