Samoa can give trainer Henry Cecil food for thought today. Her stable-companion Ramruma is a leading candidate for the Oaks but she can boost her own claims for the Epsom Classic in the £20,000added Sun Life of Canada Group of Companies Fillies' Trial Stakes at Newbury.

Cecil won the same race in 1997 with Yashmak and last year with Jibe and has another serious contender in Samoa, who is offered at 25 to 1 by Ladbrokes for Epsom. Ramruma is 5 to 1 second favourite.

The daughter of Rainbow Quest only made her racecourse debut at the end of last month but showed her potential with a decisive win in a Sandown maiden. Making much of the running, she stayed on strongly and beat Tricolore by two and a half lengths.

Cecil said that Samoa's win was a pleasant surprise so even better things can be expected with a run under her belt. She can take this step up to listed company in her stride.

The £10,000-added Ladbroke Stakes offers a typical "Showcase Handicap" puzzle, for which Billaddie may prove the safest selection. Mark Flower's consistent six-year-old showed he retains plenty of ability when a staying-on seventh to Blueprint at Newmarket earlier this month.

Dandy Night floored subsequent Windsor winner Victory Day at Newmarket and can follow up in the Highclere Stud Fillies' Conditions Stakes.

Ed Dunlop's promising colt Al Naba can make a successful reappearance in the Olympian-Sun Life of Canada Conditions Stakes.

At Thirsk, Antarctic Storm can calm punters' nerves by taking the opening Mowbray Selling Stakes. The Richard Fahey-trained six-year-old has had problems but returned to form in his first race for three months when lifting a Newcastle claimer by two and a half lengths from Lake Taal earlier this month.

Hibernate can go one better in the Levy Board Station Claiming Stakes after running Imain to a neck in a 22-runner handicap at Warwick.

Yes Keemo Sabee deserves compensation in the two-mile Helmsley Handicap after being collared close home by Star Rage at Beverley last week.