Oakmere Homes Handicap Stakes

Milford has run over today's trip and going and shaped with promise when second last time out, returning after 24 days in good order; yet to win in his last five starts, but drawn in stall one and top-rated here, he is the one to beat.

Wild Clary won two starts back and has placed twice more in recent starts, showing consistent form, but a 78-day absence and a trainer in a deep losing run give real cause for caution at 140 lb from stall nine.

Territorial Knight ran a solid second two starts back and returns on familiar distance and going terms after a 24-day break, with our rating of 88 suggesting he holds more than enough ability to threaten at the top of this field; the concern is he has been winless in his last five starts and must prove he can convert.

Winless in his last five starts, Kodi Lion nevertheless catches the eye with distance and going experience and a rating of 89 that marks him as a genuine threat at the head of the rankings — the concern is that his recent finishes offer little encouragement he can translate that promise into a telling run here.

Woven shaped with real promise when a close second two starts back, and his experience over today's trip and going gives him every chance from stall three carrying 137 lb, though he remains winless in recent starts and that ninth last time out demands some forgiveness.