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This last of the big Autumn Handicaps used to signal the end of the flat racing season.

However this has now been extended – too far in our humble opinion – into Champions Day next weekend.

So Saturday's card has the G1 Dewhurst in which 14 2yos will tackle the 1400m and the Cesarewitch, a race that starts In one country and finishes in another.

The Dewhurst sees the unbeaten Chindit on 2/1 with Pat Dobbs riding for Richard Hannon and Thunder Moon 3/1 for Joseph O'B.  Have some fun with multlples (they are only 2yos after all) and add Cadillac 10/1 who has been doing great things in Ireland and Etonian 14/1 a stablemate of Chindit with Tom Marquand in the irons.

The Cesarewitch is over 3600m and has a maximum field of 34!  The market is understandably very wide with Coltrane and Great White Shark on 8/1.  We like Leoncavallo on 9/1, Australis 20/1 (why not) and Not So Sleepy 11/1.

On Friday Andrew Balding's Happy Power won the Godolphin Stud and Stable Staff over 1400m, with Pogo on 10/1 second ahead of Glorious Journey third and the winner's stablemate Zakowski fourth.

The Fillies' Mile went to Pretty Gorgeous by ½ length from Pogo 10/1 and Glorious Journey another ½ length away third and Shale ran fourth.

At York Logician was last in the 4-runner G3.