Bengal Bay debuted for William Haggas at Ascot last year and has switched yards along with Baileys Blues, who failed to win in five outings for Mark Johnston. Kloster was beaten only a couple of lengths in Listed company at Longchamp recently with the winner trained by Andre Fabre and the latter runs two in this. Havasu showed little on her debut but the Frankel filly VINTERN ran well for fourth behind a couple of subsequent winners at Deauville on her debut and may prove good enough on her reappearance with an apprentice’s allowance helping her cause. Merci Pour Tout is preferred to Cap Skirring of the rest.
Bengal Bay 7-1 (9-5) Slowly into stride, towards rear in centre, pushed along halfway, headway chasing leaders and ran green 2f out, pushed along and kept on steadily inside final furlong, 5th of 16, 2 1/2l behind Cosmic Power (9-5) at Ascot 6f stks (4) gf in Sep.
Baileys Blues (FR) 9-2 (8-10) Led, ridden over 1f out, headed and no extra inside final furlong, 5th of 8, 3 1/2l behind Little Brown Trout (9-0) at Lingfield 6f (4) pol in Dec.
Kloster (FR) (8-13) 6th of 10, 1 3/4l behind Arapaho (8-13) at ParisLongchamp 7f lst stks gd in May.
Magic Vati (FR) (8-11) last of 10, 12 1/4l behind Oxalis (8-11) at Saint-Cloud 7f mdn stks gs in Sep.
Havasu (8-13) 10th of 11, 15 1/4l behind Les Hogues (8-13) at Saint-Cloud 6f stks gd in May.
Vintern (9-2) 4th of 13, 2 1/2l behind Schwesterherz (9-2) at Deauville 6f stks gd in Jul.
Merci Pour Tout (FR) (9-2) 2nd of 8, 1 1/2l behind Sumatran Tiger (8-11) at Clairefontaine 1m mdn stks hvy in Oct.
Persia (FR) (8-12) 7th of 11, 10 1/2l behind Black Fever (9-2) at Saint-Cloud 1m mdn stks hvy in Sep.
Caline (IRE) (8-13) 6th of 16, 5 1/2l behind Beaute Pour Toi (8-13) at Saint-Cloud 1m mdn stks sft in May.
Cap Skirring (FR) (8-12) 4th of 11, 3 1/4l behind Healer (9-2) at Deauville 7f stks pol in Feb.
Mienvee Flyer (9-2) 7th of 10, 10 3/4l behind Minuty (9-2) at Chantilly 6f mdn gd in Sep.