fly jumped start, always behind, ridden over 3f out, never dangerous
held up mid-division, ridden 2f out and soon one pace
slowly into stride, always in rear
pulled hard in mid-division, ridden to lead over 2f out, went clear over 1f out, weakened well inside final furlong, just held on
held up behind, headway on outer over 1f out, finished strongly inside final furlong, just failed
took keen hold, prominent, ridden and no progress over 1f out
tracked leaders 3f, soon lost place and beaten over 3f out
behind, headway over 3f out, effort 2f out, stayed on, not quite pace to challenge
held up mid-division, chased leaders over 4f out, ridden to chase winner over 1f out, kept on, lost 2nd close home
prominent, chased leader over 4f out, led over 3f out, headed over 2f out, soon weakened
prominent until weakened over 2f out
led until headed over 3f out, weakened
took keen hold towards rear, never troubled leaders
tracked leader to over 4f out, not clear run over 2f out, stayed on same pace when clear from over 1f out
Recent Wolverhampton winner Fly To Dubai has an obvious chance under his penalty if able to reproduce the form back on turf but there is no guarantee of that and preference is for Gurrun, who gets the vote ahead of Courageously. The selection was well held behind Sirce at Leicester last time when finishing just behind another of today's rivals Master Joseph but the soft ground that day would have been against Neville Callaghan's colt, who is better judged on previous form at Lingfield. The faster surface today should enable the son of Dansili to reverse form with Mick Channon's colt and he may be good enough to take the honours. Coombe Centenary has yet to prove conclusively that she stays this far, while Oakley Absolute is not certain to do so either on pedigree. Courageously should stay but Paul Cole's colt has shown little promise so far and a safer option looks to be Gurrun.
