Roger Varian and Jim Crowley have a 21.9% strike rate when they team up and they could easily improve that strike rate with LANEQASH. A winner on debut at 2, he ran very well on his comeback last season when 2nd in the Group 2 Hungerford Stakes at Newbury behind Sacred. With such a good record fresh, there should be no real concern over his fitness and backing all the progeny of his Sire Cable Bay on their first run beyond their 3-year-old season yields a profit of +£44. He was last seen finishing 4th in the Joel Stakes at Newmarket behind Benbatl in September but was beaten less than 3-lengths on that occasion and a repeat of that effort should be enough to see him go close. If he can repeat that level of form, he should prove hard to beat.
