@LingfieldPark Two WIN & YOU'RE IN races at Lingfield Park this Saturday

The All-Weather Championships step up a gear at Lingfield Park on Saturday, November 16, with a pair of £37,000 Listed races offering automatic qualification for Europe's richest All-Weather raceday, on Friday, April 18.

The winner of the 10-furlong coral.co.uk Churchill Stakes (2.35pm) will gain a place in the £200,000 Coral Middle Distance Final, run over the same course and distance on All-Weather Championships Finals Day.

A total of 20 entries for Saturday's race include Highland Knight (Andrew Balding) and Tales Of Grimm (Richard Fahey), who fought out a thrilling finish to the Group Three Darley Stakes at Newmarket on October 20.

Excess Knowledge (John Gosden) could make his first start since finishing down the field in the Group One Ladbrokes St Leger, while last year's winner Farraaj (Roger Varian), who also captured the Group Three Winter Derby at Lingfield Park in March, is due to return to the Surrey course.

William Haggas ended the Flat turf season in superb form and the Newmarket trainer is set to be represented by the rapidly improving Graphic. The four-year-old has won four of his last five starts, with the only defeat coming when he finished a fine fourth in the Cambridgeshire Heritage Handicap at Newmarket on September 28.

Graphic, who is owned by the Royal Ascot racing club, won the valuable London Mile Series Final on Polytrack at Kempton Park at the start of September, and made all on his latest appearance for a facile four-length success in a valuable mile handicap at Nottingham.

Harry Herbert, racing manager of the Royal Ascot racing club, revealed: "I still have to discuss it with William (Haggas) but I think it is very likely that Graphic will run at Lingfield Park on Saturday.

"We are very happy with him at the moment and this looks a good race to go for. The entries are very strong and it looks like a Group Three in all but name.

"Graphic has been highly progressive this year. At the start of the year he was rated 86 and now has a mark of 110, so we feel he has earned a crack at a Black Type race.

"The one unknown will be the trip, as he hasn't run over 10 furlongs before. However, he did finish fourth in the Cambridgeshire and looks as if he should stay. We know he goes on the surface."

Herbert also revealed that Conduct, the impressive five-length winner of the Betfred November Handicap at Doncaster on November 9, will also be campaigned in the All-Weather Championships. The six-old is also trained by Haggas and runs in the colours of Highclere Thoroughbred Racing's Royal Palace Syndicate.

He added: "The plan is to keep going through the all-weather season with conduct. I think William has already found a race for him.

"We run our horses where there is decent prize money and both horses could well line up on finals day at Lingfield.

"We don't have many jumpers this year, so the All-Weather Championships provide some decent racing for our members through the winter months."

           

Saturday's other WIN & YOU'RE IN contest is the six-furlong Best Odds At bookmakers.co.uk Golden Rose Stakes (3.10pm), which offers a place in the £150,000 bookmakers.co.uk Sprint Final over the same course and distance on All-Weather Championships Finals Day.

Several notable sprinters feature among the 23 entries including this season's Haydock Sprint Cup fourth Hawkeyethenoo (Jim Goldie), 2011 Prix de l'Abbaye winner Tangerine Trees (Bryan Smart) and Ascot heritage handicap scorer Galician (Mark Johnston).

As well as winning a WIN & YOU'RE IN race, horses qualify for the six championship races on All-Weather Championships Finals Day by running in a minimum of three races at Britain's All-Weather tracks - three owned by ARC, Lingfield Park, Southwell and Wolverhampton, and The Jockey Club's Kempton Park - between October 26 and April 12.