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THE one thing that we can guarantee in racing at the moment, and therefore the going to which is of immense help when trying to dissect a race, and the prevailing fast ground should prove right up the street of MUKADDAMAH in the Aphrodite Stakes at Newmarket due off at 3.22.

She was hugely inconvenienced racing off a slow pace and therefore pulling hard when a never nearer fourth of sixth, beaten a shade under five lengths, in the Ribblesdale Stakes at Royal Ascot. There is little doubt that the stiff finish that Headquarters provides should bring out the best of her and with several of her six rivals likely to be at the sharp end throughout, this Listed contest could pan out really nicely for her on only her fifth career start.

Of the other runners, Eternal Pearl looks the biggest danger to the selection. She eased home at long odds on to land her maiden at Kempton Park last time out and there should be plenty more to come from the daughter of Frankel on only her fifth career start.