Cork gets the green light

Karl Burke is relishing his exciting Newbury scorer Convergent taking on the world’s best racehorse Calandagan in the Coolmore Coronation Cup at Epsom.

A patient approach has been backed to reap rewards, despite My Ophelia being described as having “very little chance” of appearing in the Betfred Oaks at Epsom next month.

Sunday’s meeting at Plumpton was called off earlier this week as a “precautionary measure” by the British Horseracing Authority, after a strain of equine flu was confirmed in an unvaccinated non-thoroughbred at a livery yard adjacent to the East Sussex course. Here we look at some key questions: