My Mate Alfie (pink cap) finished second at the Curragh last time out.

SPRINTERS take centre stage this Saturday at Haydock as the Merseyside track hosts the Group One Sprint Cup (3.35pm).

The sprinting division has been a real guessing game this season, with no one horse stamping their dominance.

French-trained Lazzat looked to be some way ahead of the British sprinters when winning the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes at Ascot, but then put in an underwhelming effort at Deauville last time.

Jerome Reynier’s four-year-old still looks the most likely winner of this contest, but with rain in the air, the race likely to cut up and the sprint division anyone’s at the moment, the value lies elsewhere.

Impressive Ayr handicap winner, Almeraq is a dark horse in here and he could be up to m

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