Silvestre de Sousa is looking for his fourth win in the Cesarewitch.

IRISH-trained horses look to have a stranglehold on the betting for this Saturday’s big handicap, the Cesarewitch (3.40pm) from Newmarket.

That’s perhaps unsurprising when you consider Irish trainers have won six of the last seven renewals of this historic race.

Naturally Willie Mullins features prominently in that list, having reeled off a hat-trick of wins between 2018 and 2020, and this year, Bunting has been the subject of strong market support.

However, I’m willing to take him and last year’s winner Alphonse Le Grande on, as I like the look of Cesarewitch Trial winner REVEREND HUBERT .

Charles Byrnes’ charge blew that race apart, winning by eight lengths, defeating the well-regarded Belgravian in the process.

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