Ted's Treble - racing picks for Saturday 28 June

It's a big day of racing on Saturday, and Ed 'Longshot Ted' Quigley, fresh from a 5/1 winner in his last column, is on hand with some Saturday sizzlers..

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Newcastle - 2.10 Kind Of Blue - 6/4 (Ladbrokes)

KIND OF BLUE is the class act here, and can show his true colours. He is a winner of the Group 1 Champions Sprint at Ascot last season, and should be able to take advantage of the drop in class for this assignment. You can watch an interview with assistant trainer for Kind of Blue, Tom Fanshawe, in our 'Inside the Yard' series.

Kind Of Blue has to carry a 7lb penalty in this Group 3 encounter, but can get back on track here for Wathan Racing and James Doyle. The dismal performance on his seasonal reappearance can be easily forgiven, as he made a mess of the start leaving the gates over the minimum trip, and his chance was gone before it had really got started.

With that outing out of the way, and a step back up to a stiff 6f, everything looks in place to see the colt in his best light for his first start on Tapeta. The James Fanshawe yard have been amongst the winners in the last week or so, and this combination can prove tough to beat here. 

Curragh - 3.30 Kalpana - 6/4 (Ladbrokes)

This should be an absolute corker, with the classic generation taking on the four-year-olds, and my preference will be for one of the older individuals, in the form of the Andrew Balding-trained KALPANA.

She was a progressive type last year who ended up winning three on the bounce, including rounding off the season by winning at the highest level, on Champions Day at Ascot. She has a very solid profile and ran a nice race in defeat on her seasonal reappearance, when third in the Tattersalls Gold Cup. In the context of this, that was a quality display, and she is the one to beat here with that fitness edge racing back against her own sex.

The Andrew Balding team have been in fine fettle recently, and Colin Keane takes the ride. She has plenty of stamina in her armoury and can use that to good effect to outstay her rivals here. There is a bit of rain forecast at the Curragh, and if that materialises, then it will only enhance her claims in this assignment.

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York - 4.15 Heathen - odds to follow

The step back up to 1m6f can only help the David O'Meara-trained HEATHEN, who can capitalise on a potentially lenient turf handicap mark here. His last win on the all-weather was off 7lb higher, so running off an official mark of 74, he is looking thrown in based on his peak efforts on a synthetic surface, and this isn't the deepest of races to make his presence felt.

He was slowly away (frequent trait) when producing a running-on second on the Knavesmire last time out in an Amateur race over 1m4f - so this greater emphasis on stamina will be much more to his liking. Danny Tudhope takes the ride, and if the six-year-old puts his best foot forward, he could be tough to stop. 

Don't forget Ed will be back on Tuesday with his best bets for the afternoon's action.

Ted's Treble for Saturday

Newcastle - 2.10 Kind Of Blue - 6/4 (Ladbrokes)

Curragh - 3.30 Kalpana - 6/4 (Ladbrokes)

York - 4.15 Heathen - odds to follow

Ted's Treble - odds to follow

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