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15:15 Chester

Chester Chronicle Rated Stakes (Showcase Handicap) (Class B)

  • 11 Runners
  • Distance: 7f 2y
  • Going: Good
Weighed In
  • Winning Time: 1m 27.03s
  • 11 Ran
1(2)
Silk - LIGHT BLUE and ORANGE diamonds, LIGHT BLUE sleeves, LIGHT BLUE cap, ORANGE star
7/1
  • Form 0-30001
  • Age 4
  • Weight 9-10

in touch, headway over 2f out, ridden to lead inside final furlong, soon headed, edged left, no extra towards finish

2(4)
Silk - Royal Blue, Silver striped sleeves, Red and Royal Blue hooped cap
10/1
  • Form 306055
  • Age 7
  • Weight 9-4

mid-division, ridden and headway over 2f out, one pace final furlong

3(8)
Silk - White, Red and White striped sleeves, Black and Red check cap
  • Form 603000
  • Age 4
  • Weight 8-12

chased leaders over 4f

4(1)
Silk - Black and Gold stripes, Black sleeves, Black cap, Gold diamond
4/1
  • Form 003130
  • Age 5
  • Weight 8-11

chased leaders, ridden over 2f out, weakened over 1f out

5(6)
Silk - Light Green, Dark Blue sleeves, Light Green armlets, Dark Blue cap

Tesio

91
20/1
  • Form 005-001
  • Age 5
  • Weight 8-10

dwelt, held up, effort over 1f out, no impression

6(7)
Silk - MAROON
8/1
  • Form 254313
  • Age 3
  • Weight 8-9

dwelt, held-up, headway over 2f out, ridden over 1f out, led well inside final furlong, ran on

7(11)
Silk - White, Emerald Green diamond and armlets, quartered cap
25/1
  • Form 411240
  • Age 5
  • Weight 8-8

led, ridden over 2f out, headed and no extra inside final furlong

8(5)
Silk - Royal Blue and Orange diabolo, Yellow sleeves and cap
9/4
  • Form 054002
  • Age 5
  • Weight 8-7

pulled hard, in touch, lost place after 2f, ridden not clear run over 1f out, kept on one pace final furlong

9(3)
Silk - Purple, Mauve cross of lorraine, striped sleeves, White cap, Purple star
10/1
  • Form 430162
  • Age 4
  • Weight 8-7

chased leader over 4f, soon weakened

10(10)
Silk - Light Blue, White hollow box, check cap
  • Form 00-4100
  • Age 5
  • Weight 8-7

in touch, ridden over 2f out, soon weakened

11(9)
Silk - ROYAL BLUE, WHITE hoop, WHITE sleeves, ROYAL BLUE armlets, WHITE cap
  • Form 006220
  • Age 3
  • Weight 8-2

slowly into stride, held up, ridden 2f out, no impression

In depth

Verdict

A few of these arrive here at the top of their game and this will no doubt go right down to the wire. However, Vanderlin was not winning out of tern at York at the start of this month and has solid claims of a follow up here. Forever Times and Lunar Leo make up the main body of the opposition of those drawn low - while Pieter Brueghel and Celtic Mill have plenty on from stalls eight and eleven respectively and may be best left alone today. The course statistics favouring the inside runners have been upheld throughout this season's action at Chester and Vanderlin, with rock solid form, is ideally situated to get a good two from Forever Times. However, it is the turn of foot that Vanderlin is capable of producing at the end of his races that will win him the day and he will be hard to peg back if he hits the front inside the distance. Flur Ne H Alba is one to monitor for each way support as he receives plenty of weight from the selection - although his latest second to Blue Spinnaker at Haydock would suggest that he will not be good enough to resist the late rattle capable of being produced by Vanderlin if he runs up to his best.