As a response to Gordon Elliott’s claim earlier this week that British trainers spend too much time “ducking and diving” with their best horses in the first few months of the season, Saturday’s Tingle Creek at Sandown could hardly have been timed any better.
With the sole exception of Nube Negra, the best two-milers that Britain can muster are due to go to post in front of a big pre-Christmas crowd on Saturday, including Shishkin, the winner of an epic Clarence House Chase at Ascot last February, and his successor as the top two-mile novice, Alan King’s Edwardstone.
