Ed Walker’s four-year-old is unbeaten on good ground or faster and should have enough to see off Creative Force
It is eight years since the word “soft” failed to appear in the going description at Haydock on Sprint Cup day, so the connections of Starman may feel that Saturday’s Group One is payback for having missed out at Royal Ascot when the heavens opened mid-meeting back in June.
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