I read that things are on the upgrade in America.

This was the last serious setback to their number; since that time the population has been on the upgrade.

He's won his last two races at Leicester and seems to be on the upgrade.

Planet Red comes from a yard with a wealth of juvenile talent and is on the upgrade.

On the whole, our trade and economic cooperation with China is on the upgrade, its development potential being far from exhausted.

He is a class horse, though his stablemate, the useful Mars, might be on the upgrade.

The two-year-old filly looks as if she is on the upgrade and is worthy of note.

During ten thousand years his numbers have been on the upgrade in spite of wars, pestilences, and famines.

The front-running Kapga De Cerisy is on the upgrade but his best form has been on right-hand tracks.

Dancing River, from the local stable of Arthur Stephenson, is a tip, but Stay Awake could be on the upgrade.

Ofcom's main focus in the report is on the upgrade of the copper access network, which connects most homes and businesses in the UK, to fibre.

All 3 were racing off 7 stone 12 or lower, and in a race like this, I would only consider horses at the bottom of the handicap who clearly were on the upgrade.

BET OF THE DAY: Six Diamonds (5.50 Lingfield) won over course and dikstance with something in hand last time and is on the upgrade.

During the time when the intensive rethinking of media education approaches was on the upgrade in the Western hemisphere, in Russia of the 1970s-1980s media education was still developing within the aesthetic concept.

He sees history, especially contemporary history, as the endless rise and decline of great power units, and every event that happens seems to him a demonstration that his own side is on the upgrade and some hated rival is on the downgrade.

Like Shujan he has had his training setbacks but Armstrong has shrewdly got enough runs into him to go for this handicap and his recent home form suggests it is worth taking a chance with him as he is on the upgrade.

VERDICT: Tough race to predict as at least six horses have decent claims on best form, but MEDERMIT was unlucky not to win at Cheltenham last year and appears to be on the upgrade.

Plenty Of Scope: Dont Tell The Wife (5.15 Sandown) is on the upgrade judging by his Sandown victory – albeit narrow one – over Gala Evening three weeks ago and looks capable of defying a 7lb rise in the ratings.