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Trainer Richard Fahey provides a horse by horse guide to his Saturday team

Image: Can Arctic Feeling add to his Epsom tally on Saturday?

Check out Richard Fahey's horse-by-horse Saturday guide, including Arctic Feeling who goes for a third course win at Epsom.

We have three runners at Epsom on Saturday. Dark Devil steps up in trip for the Investec Private Banking Stakes which we think will suit, even though his pedigree would suggest otherwise. He's a galloper who ran well from the back at Chester on his reappearance. He needs to be on his A-game here to be competitive and could have been better drawn in nine.

Arctic Feeling won the Investec Asset Management Stakes three years ago with Jimmy Quinn in the saddle and they combine again this year. The problem is they have a stone more to carry this time around but the horse continues to do us proud.

George Bowen is our other runner but he's out in stall 11 which may not help. The more rain the better for him and if it's soft ground I'd give him a big chance.

Desire runs in the racinguk.com Handicap at Musselburgh and was entitled to need her first run back at Hamilton. She's well drawn in one here has the ability to run a big race.

The Racing UK Profits Returned To Racing Handicap is a competitive race and Back To Bond needs to step up to win it but it was great to see him get his head back in front at Wetherby last time. He ran well in some decent nurseries last season and is another who is well drawn so he could go close.

Kocollada isn't very big but is genuine. We knew she'd run well first time and she duly won at Thirsk and the ebfstallions.com Edinburgh Castle Stakes is a fact-finding mission with her. We want to know whether she's good enough to go to Royal Ascot. We don't do too much with her at home so we'll learn plenty here but we know she goes to Scotland very fit and very well.

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Dacoity showed a lot of speed when running a good race from a bad draw at Nottingham last time. He has Kevin Ryan's Futoon to beat in the Ladbrokes Maiden Stakes at Doncaster but the drop in trip should suit my fellow.

I was disappointed with High Baroque's reappearance at Newmarket. I'm now hoping he needed it more than we thought as he's a horse I was looking forward to this year. He steps up to a mile-and-a-half in the Ladbrokes Handicap which I've been looking forward to doing so I'm hoping for a better run.

Novinophobia hasn't raised a gallop all year and we don't know why. He's been very disappointing but we'll keep going and try to work him out starting in the Track Your Football Acca With Ladbrokes Handicap.

Our final two runners are in the Nestle/EBF Stallions Novice Stakes at Newcastle. The same comments apply to both Vatican Hill and Geego. They've had a run and are probably long-term projects that need to be in handicaps. I can't see either winning maidens but they try hard and are ready for another run.

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