ABINGDON rates nap selection in the DFS Park Hill Stakes on a cracking second day of the St Leger meeting at Doncaster.

Seen just once last year, Sir Michael Stoute's three-year-old has come on in leaps and bounds, meeting her sole defeat during this campaign in a Listed race at Newmarket.

Even that run promised much as she finished well on her first try at a mile and a half and it was no surprise at all to see her relish the long straight on Knavesmire at York last month, where she obliged as a well-backed favourite.

The step up to a mile and six on Town Moor seems absolutely made to measure as she should really be able to hit top gear down the long run for home.

Stoute has his team in great nick, too – he had winners at five tracks over the weekend – so that also bodes well as Andrea Atzeni takes the reins aboard Abingdon.

It is also worth sticking with the Freemason Lodge handler in the crownhotel-bawtry.com Handicap, where POET'S WORD should take the beating under Ryan Moore.

He looks like developing into a useful middle-distance performer that Stoute does so well with and there was lots to like about the way he swept to the front at Goodwood last time out, when things hardly went to plan.

Conqueror of Leger second-favourite Muntahaa in a Nottingham maiden at the beginning of the season, his one blip came when favourite at Epsom on Derby Day. That is now forgotten and it might take a good one to get past him.

BLENDING is the pick in the Clugston Construction May Hill Stakes for John Gosden and Frankie Dettori.

Her maiden success at Newmarket has worked out well, with the second and third wining since, and a mile with a little bit of juice in the ground promises to be ideal.

She was behind the reopposing Grecian Light first time up but that one disappointed at Goodwood and has questions to answer.

GLITTER GIRL is hard to oppose in the opening British Stallion Studs "Carrie Red" EBF Fillies' Nursery Stakes, with Moore again in the saddle.

William Haggas – another trainer in top form – is obviously keen to take advantage of her handicap mark before going on to better things, which she looks eminently capable of following a couple of easy wins in the north.

It could be a profitable afternoon in his native Yorkshire for Haggas as MUBTASIM, ridden by Pat Cosgrave, can hopefully bounce back in the Weatherbys Hamilton £300,000 2-Y-O Stakes.

Winner of his first two starts, he was a really strong whisper heading to York for the Gimcrack Stakes but was never a factor behind Blue Point. He must be pleasing again to be out relatively swiftly.

HYDROXIDE looked a winner waiting to happen on his racecourse bow and he gets his chance in the DFS British Stallion Studs EBF Maiden Stakes under James Doyle, while Dettori appears a significant booking by Michael Wigham for Fairway To Heaven in the closing Ladbrokes Handicap.

JUPITER CUSTOS has to be the call in the Winner Event Services Jump Jockeys Derby Handicap at Epsom.

Michael Scudamore's four-year-old was just denied over course and distance in the Amateur Derby and will have the assistance of the trainer's bother Tom as pilot.