'This may have been the long-term target' - Phill Anderson has three selections for Wednesday

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Julia Augusta
1.35 Lingfield
1pt win

Kodiac Thriller
4.55 Kempton
1pt win

Enemy
8.00 Kempton
1pt each-way

The London Stayers’ Series has been a popular initiative and there’s a full field of 14 for the £80,000 final (8.00).

One who could go well at a likely decent price is Enemy for Ian Williams, who also has The Grand Visir in the race for the same owners.

Enemy has come down the weights to a mark of 103 since winning off 108 on the opening night of the Dubai Carnival at Meydan in January and he went on to prove that win was no fluke when finishing runner-up in a Group 3 handicap at Riyadh a month later.

He had some tough assignments in Group company when returning to Britain but he’s now on his lowest mark since bolting up at Musselburgh in April 2022 and this may have been the long-term target since switching back to handicap company.

While the usual hold-up tactics leave him a hostage to fortune, he should get a decent pace to aim at with Blazeon Five, Zoran, Sleeping Lion and Citizen General all likely to go forward. He doesn’t always break on terms but that isn’t a problem given his running style. Expect him to drop in from his wide draw in stall 11 and make his challenge when they approach the cutaway two furlongs out.

Enemy was having his first run for two months when behind the reopposing Sir Chauvelin and Sleeping Lion in a qualifier over course and distance last time. He travelled into that contest in eyecatching fashion before fading late and shaped like he would come on for the run. This is more competitive but that race should have put him spot on for this and he makes each-way appeal with plenty of bookmakers paying four places.

Last year’s runner-up, Rainbow Dreamer, is just 1lb higher this time and a mark of 97 is workable for Alan King’s veteran. He didn’t get an ideal trip last year but he won the stayers’ race on All-Weather Championships finals day in April before a solid sixth in the Northumberland Plate; if he got back to that level of form, he could give the selection most to think about.

The Class 4 nursery (4.55) has some good sprint prospects, arguably none more so than Kodiac Thriller.

He wasn't seen to best effect when staying on for fourth over this course and distance last month but that race was dominated by a big-priced front-runner who was given too much rope by the field.

Western, who reopposes here, finished just over a length in front of the selection but he was in the boxseat all the way and had fewer excuses than Kodiac Thriller, who is 2lb better off with Western for this assignment.

That was a career-best on Kodiac Thriller's all-weather debut and it’s possible there’s more to come on this surface through the winter given that his dam’s sole victory came on an artificial surface. His trainer excels with sprinters and Kodiac Thriller could be the one to beat if he continues on his upward curve.

The Winter Oaks Trial (1.35) is the feature on Lingfield’s eight-race card and Julia Augusta looks a potential improver.

Cheveley Park Stud's filly made a highly promising start to her career by winning her first two outings and, while she hasn't looked the easiest to train since, she has run two big races in defeat on the all-weather this winter.

She was beaten only around four lengths after six months off last month and took a big step forward when narrowly denied at Kempton 16 days ago. The daughter of Ulysses shaped like she would relish a step up in distance that day and her pedigree suggests as much.

She was arguably unlucky not to get that Kempton contest in the stewards’ room, having been carried halfway across the track by the winner and gone down by only a neck, and seems to have been leniently treated with just a 1lb rise for that career-best.

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