raced wide tracked winner, ridden over 2f out, soon weakened
keen made all, ridden over 1f out, clear entering final furlong, stayed on
tracked leaders, pushed along to chase winner over 2f out, stayed on one pace final furlong
steadied start, keen in touch in rear, pushed along over 2f out, never a factor
close up, ridden and weakened over 1f out
in touch, pushed along 2f out, switched wide and headway over 1f out, kept on same pace final furlong
Peter The Great gets a change of headgear having come out second best in a fight to the line over track and trip last time. Imperial Sands is fitted with cheekpieces after a poor effort at Windsor while POWER OF STATES (NAP) finished last of six in a tougher contest at Kempton. But Hugo Palmer’s charge wasn’t beaten far off a slow pace on that occasion and this should be run more to his liking. Sharpcliff continues his good progress when scoring here on his reappearance but is upped a couple of grades while Diderot has something to prove over this far.
Imperial Sands (IRE) 6-1 (9-7) Tracked leader until ridden over 2f out, chased leaders, weakened inside final 2f, last of 7, 13 1/4l behind Lucander (9-10) at Windsor 1m 2f hcp (3) gd in May.
Peter The Great 13-8 (8-13) Led, ridden over 1f out, headed well inside final furlong, held towards finish, 2nd of 4, 3/4l behind Greatgadian (9-2) at Chelmsford City 1m 2f hcp (2) pol in May.
Power Of States (IRE) 14-1 (8-13) Held up in rear, ridden over 1f out, never threatened, last of 6, 2 1/4l behind Baldomero (8-2) at Kempton 1m 2f hcp (2) pol in Mar.
Diderot 11-1 (9-9) Close up when short of room after 2f and lost place, in touch, pushed along 4f out, weakened 2f out, 12th of 13, dist behind Pride Of America (9-2) at Chester 1m 2f hcp (3) gs in May.
Ace Rothstein (USA) (9-2) last of 9, 11 1/2l behind Tawaareq (8-13) at Sakhir 1m 3f gd in Feb.
Sharpcliff 10-3 (9-11) Held up in rear, headway when switched left over 1f out, soon not clear run, ran on inside final furlong, led towards finish, won at Chelmsford City 1m 2f hcp (4) pol in May beating Figures (9-7) by nk, 5 ran.