Inside Angle: Martin Dixon reckons Fox can outwit rivals

After a generally progressive season as a three-year-old, Pressure's On came back and ran a blinder to be a staying-on second at Wolverhampton this month. That effort suggests there's plenty more improvement in him this year, especially back up in distance. 

This is clearly competitive with 22 runners but no doubt there'll be several that will come on for the run so I like the fact Pressure's On has that recent comeback behind him and, although it's hard to predict potential draw biases at Doncaster at times, he is drawn around plenty of the pace in stall six so will hopefully get an ideal tow into things. 

From an inflated mark in very competitive races on turf, Teumessias Fox struggled to find any consistency in his 2024 campaign but I'm hoping that back on the all-weather after a break is the time to catch him. 

He's slipped back to a mark just 1lb above his last success, which came at this track in January last year, and he was seriously impressive that day quickening through from out the back to win with loads in hand. 

He's won three times and placed twice from only five career starts on synthetic surfaces, plus has won a couple of times after a layoff previously, and it's interesting that Oisin Murphy has picked to ride him ahead of the other Balding pair, Mount Atlas and Lieber Power. He's a top price of 8-1 at the time of writing with most bookmakers offering four places. 

A lof of the fillies in this Listed event look to be hunting black type in a race that lacks depth beyond the front end of the market - only three of the field are rated in excess of 100 - and although Shuwari has a long absence to overcome, having missed last season due to injury, she's a filly I loved as a two-year-old and at a general price of 7-2 I'm happy to back her to turn over the short-priced favourite Soprano. 

That pair have met before, with Shuwari beating Soprano in a Listed event at Sandown on only her second career start, and she continued to progress as a juvenile rounding off with an excellent second in the Fillies’ Mile. She's very much bred to train on and I still think she could take high rank in the fillies miling division this year. 

Jack Channon has his string in fantastic form, sending out eight winners from only 16 runners since February 22, and his Cajetan has caught my eye on each of his two starts since hosing up at Newcastle in December. 

Back there on his next start he got no luck whatsoever in running and clearly should have finished closer and then over this course and distance last time he was held up in a race where they went unusually steady for a sprint and he could not get involved.