Who To Follow On Day Three Of The May Chester Boodles Meeting

The feature event of the three days is the Chester Cup over the staying trip of 2m2 1/2f and at a big price near the bottom of the weights, Glencadam Glory could be a big each way player.

The Tim Easterby trained son of Nathaniel has been out of form of late, hence the big price but if bouncing back to form off his current mark he could be dangerous.

Last season his best run came at York in the Ebor Handicap when a close second behind Fujaira Prince, who was a group horse in a handicap.

After that his mark got raised and he struggled in staying handicaps for the rest of the term, but after some lesser runs he is now back to a respectable number.

He made his seasonal reappearance at Musselburgh and may have just needed the run, but now 4lb lower than his second in the Ebor, getting back onto softish ground, he could out run his odds.

Andrew Balding sends a decent team over to Chester on Friday with a bunch of big chances in the big races across the day and we believe it may pay to follow him.

One of best chances on the afternoon comes in the Boodles Conditions Stakes over 5f where he fields King's Lynn for the Queen, who looks to be a progressive type.

Other big runners on Friday look to be Nate The Great in the Chester Cup, Bangkok in the Group Two Huxley Stakes and Grove Ferry in the first race of the day.

Balding is in flying form over the last two weeks managing to land 10 winners from his last 39 rides which sees him running at a 25.64% win rate.

Ryan Moore is set for a big day on Friday at Chester with a handful of superb rides and with that in mind we are putting him up as the rider to follow.

He looks to have three outstanding rides, starting with the Aidan O'Brien trained Armory who has International Group One form in the book that should see him in the mix.

Moore's other big chances are King's Lynn for the Queen and Andrew Balding and also Grandmaster Flash for Joseph O'Brien who is chasing a hat-trick.

The rider has been in fine form over the last two weeks, across both England and Ireland and it has seen him land eight winners from his last 43 rides, which sees him pose a 18.60% strike rate.