2017 Qipco Champions Stakes Ante Post Preview PT 2

Debuting late last year in a winning performance with plenty of decent runs leading up to this contest - most notably a pair of Group 2 encounters with the Great Voltigeur and the Qatar Prix Niel. His races this year haven’t been perfect but there is plenty of justifiable excitement about this exciting colt and the punters seem to be taking to him here.

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You’ll find him trading at a 3/1 price tag right now while a few bookmakers up here can be spotted offering him up at a 4/1 margin at the time of this writing. Expect plenty of movement in his odds on the day.

Barney Roy comes into the race with a price anywhere between 4/1 and 6/1 and he’s a justifiable second-favourite and you can expect him to be a popular selection on course. The winner of this year’s St James’ Palace Stakes deserves plenty of credit coming into the contest but you have to wonder about the last two performances where he was only able to muster up second and third-place runs with Ulysses getting the better of him each time.

Speaking of the devil, punters will find Ulysses available as the third favourite in this contest with a price out there right now anywhere from a 4/1 margin all the way up to 13/2 in some places. He has put together some really solid runs in the past year but you have to wonder how his run in the Arc De Triomphe at Longchamp just three weeks prior to the race itself.

One has to wonder whether he will be able to channel one of those impeccable performances from earlier in the flat season in either of his two upcoming races.