Great St Wilfrid day at Ripon was a shadow of its usual self 12 months ago, with just 14 runners in the main event and the consolation race abandoned for lack of runners, but both contests are back to full strength this year and the resurgent Cairn Gorm (3.15) may be the answer to a tightly-knit feature race.
Kevin Phillipart de Foy’s gelding was a Group Three winner for Mick Channon in his juvenile days, and set off as an unbeaten 14-1 shot for his fourth two-year-old start in the Group One Prix Morny.
