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The seven-race card at Haydock Park on Saturday, July 7 opens with the £100,000 bet365 Handicap (12.35pm, 11 runners), staged over 14 furlongs for three-year-olds.

Rude Awakening (Sir Mark Prescott/Luke Morris, 8st 12lb) and Godolphin's

Ghostwatch (Charlie Appleby/Brett Doyle, 8st 12lb), both successful last time out, share 3/1 favouritism with bet365.

Also featuring on the card is the G2 bet365 Lancashire Oaks (1.10pm, seven runners) over a mile and a half for fillies and mares.

Heading the field for the £93,000 race is Horseplay (Andrew Balding/David Probert, 5/2 favourite with bet365), who was fourth to Enable in the 2017 G1 Investec Oaks at Epsom Downs and came home second to Coronet in the G2 Middleton Stakes at York in May.

Progressive four-year-old Precious Ramotswe (John Gosden/Robert Havlin, 9/2 with bet365), who is owned by Anthony Oppenheimer and unbeaten in her two starts so far this year, most recently taking a G3 contest at York, is out too boost the fantastic record of Newmarket trainer John Gosden in the bet365 Lancashire Oaks.

Along with the late Sir Henry Cecil, Gosden is the most successful handler in the Lancashire Oaks with seven wins, most recently The Black Princess in 2017.

Luca Cumani, twice victorious in the Lancashire Oaks, runs God Given (Jamie Spencer 4/1), a winner last time out over the course and distance in the G3 Betway Pinnacle Stakes on June 9.

There is also Irish interest, with Aidan O'Brien, England and Ireland's champion trainer, sending over recent G3 Munster Oaks heroine Flattering (Michael Hussey, 9/2).

bet365 Lancashire Oaks, bet365 bet:

5/2 Horseplay

7/2 God Given

4/1 Flattering

9/2 Precious Ramotswe

7/1 Mrs Sippy

14/1 Euro Nightmare

25/1 Snowy Winter

EW 1/4 - 1, 2

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