tracked leaders, ridden and every chance when hampered 3 out, 3rd and beaten when fell last
prominent, led 3rd, ridden and jumped left 3 out, driven out
always towards rear, tailed off when pulled up before 10th
led to 3rd, stayed prominent, ridden 4 out, soon weakened
pulled hard, soon tracking leaders, lost place after 4th, behind from next
in touch, headway 6th, every chance when hampered 3 out, soon ridden, one pace flat
held up, outpaced at the 9th, keeping on when left 3rd last
It is hard to find a horse that was not beaten out of sight in its last start so only a tentative vote goes the way of Dardanus, whose reappearance form was, quite simply, not as bad as that of the latest efforts put in by Brady Boys, The Pennys Dropped and Pink Harbour, who have all been highly disappointing lately. The same has to be said of Hanbrin Rose, who has never really looked like coming close to losing her maiden tag and she is not hard to overlook today. Therefore, we return to Dardanus for the likeliest winner as he dropped several hints that there are races to be won with him before an obvious training set-back restricted his campaign last year. The son of Komaite ran as well as could be expected when finishing down the field behind Ballyvaddy after a 361-day absence and he can be expected to be a different proposition now that he has a run behind him this season.
