Overheard in racing: Andy Ayres has the latest paddock gossip and picks out his Monday racing NAP

IT LOOKS like Mr Moore is finally starting to get his mojo back.

Even Ryan Moore’s number one fan would have to admit the great man hit more bum notes than a piano player wearing boxing gloves last season.

He’s got that old gunslingers swagger back though and bossed Lingfield’s Saturday card where his quick-draw treble included market drifter Anthony Van Dyck (6-4 to 2-1) in the Derby Trial.

Dynamo would struggle to shuffle the cards in Aidan O’Brien’s Epsom pack, but this fella is rock solid and will be hard to kick out of the frame come D-day.

They were wheelbarrowing money on John Gosden’s Anapurna (5-2 to 7-4) just before the Oaks Trial and she duly dotted-up under a well impressed Frankie Dettori.

Its dollars to doughnuts she’ll head to Epsom, but big John whispered that his Sparkle Roll is expected to swerve that engagement in favour of Royal Ascot’s Ribblesdale Stakes.

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