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15:40 Kempton Park

Kempton For Weddings Rated Stakes (Class C Showcase Handicap) (Class C)

  • 6 Runners
  • Distance: 1m
  • Going: Good to Firm
Weighed In
  • 6 Ran
1(6)
Silk - Cerise, White stars, Cerise sleeves, Cerise cap, White star
  • Form 1-60001
  • Age 5
  • Weight 9-7

3(3)
Silk - DARK BLUE and YELLOW check, striped sleeves
11/2
  • Form 620604
  • Age 5
  • Weight 9-4

held up and behind, headway over 2f out, ridden to chase leaders and every chance over 1f out, one-paced final furlong

8(4)
Silk - Sky Blue, Scarlet hoop, striped sleeves, Scarlet cap
5/2
  • Form 26-3013
  • Age 4
  • Weight 8-12

in touch, challenged 2f out, every chance over 1f out, not quicken final furlong, lost 2nd near finish

10(12)
Silk - ORANGE, BLACK epaulets
  • Form 120004
  • Age 7
  • Weight 8-12

in touch, effort, ridden and every chance over 1f out, unable to quicken

11(7)
Silk - Emerald Green and Royal Blue (halved), diabolo on sleeves, quartered cap
11/2
  • Form 21-0252
  • Age 3
  • Weight 8-9

held up in mid-division, headway, switched left and brought to near side rail over 2f out, led over 1f out, soon clear, easily

13(2)
Silk - Purple and Mauve (quartered), diabolo on sleeves
  • Form 0-03543
  • Age 7
  • Weight 8-7

mid-division, ridden along over 2f out, stayed on well under pressure from well over 1f out to go 2nd near finish, no chance with winner

2(11)
NR

Invader

22 b
  • Form 016620
  • Age 6
  • Weight 9-5

4(10)
NR
  • Form 545204
  • Age 7
  • Weight 9-3

5(5)
NR
  • Form 033-000
  • Age 9
  • Weight 9-1

6(9)
NR
  • Form 1/24
  • Age 5
  • Weight 9-0

7(13)
NR
  • Form 10-0205
  • Age 4
  • Weight 9-0

9(1)
NR
  • Form 53110-
  • Age 4
  • Weight 8-12

12(8)
NR
  • Form 0-3104
  • Age 3
  • Weight 8-8

In depth

Verdict

A competitive handicap with some familiar suspects doing battle over the one-mile trip. Exposed, but genuine, handicappers like Thihn, Brilliant Red, Naviasky and Free Option are difficult to win with these days and probably too high in the weights at present. Topweight Summer View will find this tougher than the race he won at Pontefract recently and more solid claims are held by the Lady Herries-trained Zonergem. A winner at Warwick last month, the four-year-old lost little in defeat in better company at Goodwood last time. If in the same form he will take plenty of beating. Nashaab and Judge Davidson are others to consider but it might be worth taking a chance with Henry Cecil's True Thunder. The fact that the Warren Place trainer has kept the son of Bigstone in training as a five-year-old has to be a tip in itself. Admittedly, the gelding will need to step up on previous efforts this term but with only three runs to his name there is probably improvement to come and, under Richard Quinn, he gets the vote.