Thunder Run (nearside) is set to represent trainer Karl Burke in the Cambridgeshire.

THERE aren’t many races that befit the title of a cavalry charge more than Newmarket’s Cambridgeshire Handicap (3.40pm).

Most years it sees a field of over 30 horses race down the straight nine furlongs of the Rowley Mile, fanning out across the breadth of the track as they do.

It’s certainly a stirring spectacle and as one of the most competitive handicaps of the Flat season, it usually takes a Group-class horse to land the prize.

REAL GAIN was thought to be of that level a couple of seasons ago.

He routed a field of handicappers over this course and distance on good-to-firm ground back in September 2023 and was subsequently stepped up into a Group Three on his next start, where he wasn’t disgraced

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