Talking Horses: Tabarrak can have the last laugh on King Of Comedy


The Group Three Diomed Stakes is Saturday’s highlight on the track with Tabarrak the right type to test the favourite’s resolve

The Group Three Diomed Stakes, rerouted to Newbury from its traditional home at Epsom, is Saturday’s highlight and revolves around John Gosden’s King Of Comedy or, more precisely, what is between the four-year-old’s ears.

He had several top-class runs to his credit at three and looked unlucky in the St James’s Palace Stakes. But his attitude deteriorated steadily as the season wore on and he appeared to throw in the towel in the QEII in October.

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Newbury 12.15 Tsar 12.45 Fortune And Glory 1.15 Edmond Dantes 1.50 Tell Me All 2.25 Dancing Feet 3.00 Oriental Mystique 3.35 Tabarrak 4.10 Russian Virtue 4.45 Manton Grange 

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