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The famous mile handicap at Doncaster is the traditional curtain-raiser to the new campaign and is worth no less than £125,000.
Last year, the popular Fath gelding won the Spring Mile - the race for those eliminated from the Lincoln.
Since that triumph last March he has significantly climbed the handicap and, indeed, is scheduled to carry 9st 4lb in this weekend’s contest.
But the positives are, he has been galloping well at home and the ground is likely to come right for him this weekend.
Also, Peter and his team have been putting in the time assisting the five-year-old chestnut at the gates after he didn’t break in the Ben Marshall Stakes last November. Alan Munro will ride him again.
The trainer said: “Don’t Panic is very well in himself and has been working nicely. We have also done a lot of work with him in the stalls.
“He does like a bit of juice in the ground, so we don’t mind the forecast rain but I do feel he has maybe got to carry a pound or two too much.”