Grand Salute arrives here after victories in Listed company in Uruguay and is very difficult to evaluate. Busker won three times on the Tapeta surface here as has SURFER (NAP) and the latter looks the one to be on. He landed a minor event on his reappearance last November and progressed so much he was running in Grade 1 class later with a close third to Prince Bishop on Super Thursday a highlight. He was well beaten in the World Cup a few of weeks later but takes a massive drop in class. Gold City landed a handicap in February and then ran well when promoted to Grade company so has to be a threat while Haatheq was in fine form at this time a year ago and if he runs anything like he did when runner-up to Soft Falling Rain in the Godolphin Mile the previous March he'll take some beating.
