Breeders' Cup Challenge: Royal Lodge Stakes Preview, Odds & Pick

The Royal Lodge Stakes takes place at Newmarket this weekend. The winner will earn a place in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf.

The Royal Lodge Stakes offers a place in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf at Newmarket this weekend.

Charlie Appleby-trained Flying Honours is the highest-rated horse in the race. The race has only four runners this year. Flying honours has won his previous two starts. Last year, the connections finished second in this race with Coroebus.

Greenland is a contender in the Royal Lodge Stakes this weekend. Aidan O'Brien has won two of the previous four editions. Greenland has only one career start, over a mile, at Roscommon in August.

The Foxes is untested over a mile and is short on odds for the Royal Lodge Stakes. Andrew Balding last won this race with Elm Park in 2014.

This is an extremely weak renewal of the Royal Lodge Stakes this year. Flying Honours almost certainly has the best form in the book and looks hard to oppose.

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