bumped leaving stalls and held up, ridden for effort over 2f out, slight headway over 1f out, no impact inside final furlong
tracked leaders, lost ground when outpaced over 2f out, pushed along over 1f out, eased inside final furlong
led, driven inside final furlong and headed, lost place close home
just better than midfield, pushed along over 1f out, headway inside final furlong, led close home, ran on
tracked leader on the outer, challenged over 1f out, weakened close home, lost 2nd final strides
tracked leader, pushed along over 3f out, soon lost ground, weakened over 2f out
just worse than mid-division, ridden for effort over 2f out, never in contention
bumped leaving the stalls and held up, smooth progress over 2f out, pushed along over 1f out, further headway and up for 2nd final strides
Several arrive on the back of placed efforts including Spiorad, who finished ahead of Dawaaleeb when runner-up over 7f here. Toronado Queen went close at Wolverhampton again on her latest start while United Front is another regularly placed and drops back down in trip along with HABIT ROUGE. The latter returned a losing favourite over 1m2f on his handicap debut but completed a double over today’s distance before that and Marco Botti’s unexposed charge gets another chance in this. Daafr is proving best at Southwell while Artistic Rifles won at Redcar in September but is upped in class.
Spiorad (IRE) 12-1 (9-1) Held up in midfield, ridden over 2f out, headway between horses over 1f out, ran on strongly final furlong, 2nd of 12, nk behind Sanaadh (9-3) at Newcastle 7f hcp (3) pol in Jan.
Habit Rouge 3-1fav (9-2) Tracked leaders, pushed along 3f out, headway 2f out, ridden over 1f out, weakened inside final furlong, 8th of 13, 4l behind Kryptos (9-1) at Wolverhampton 1m 1f hcp (3) pol in Nov.
Dawaaleeb (USA) 8-1 (9-2) Led, ridden over 2f out, headed over 1f out, still in touch entering final furlong, kept on close home, 4th of 12, 3/4l behind Sanaadh (9-3) at Newcastle 7f hcp (3) pol in Jan.
United Front (USA) 5-2 (8-8) Tracked leader 2f, tracked leaders, headway on inner over 1f out, ridden to lead inside final furlong, headed towards finish, 2nd of 4, 1l behind Assimilation (9-2) at Lingfield 1m 2f hcp (2) pol in Jan.
Artistic Rifles (IRE) 28-1 (9-12) Made all, ridden 1f out, kept on gamely final furlong, just held on, won at Redcar 1m hcp (4) gd in Sep beating Dawaaleeb (9-10) by ns, 9 ran.
Red Bond (IRE) 9-2 (9-9) Tracked leaders, driven and lost place over 1f out, edged right and well held inside final furlong, 6th of 8, 5 1/4l behind Tadleel (9-7) at Newcastle 7f hcp (4) pol in Feb.
Daafr (IRE) 7-1 (9-5) Led early, chased leader, led again over 1f out, headed inside final furlong, held after, kept on, 3rd of 8, 1 3/4l behind Tadleel (9-7) at Newcastle 7f hcp (4) pol in Feb.
Toronado Queen (IRE) 7-2 (9-5) Led early, chased leaders, switched right over 1f out, challenged over 1f out, edged right well inside final furlong, just held, 2nd of 6, hd behind Lottie Marie (9-0) at Wolverhampton 1m 1f hcp fll (2) pol in Feb.
