led, ridden and strongly challenged from over 2f out, headed over 1f out, weakened well inside final furlong
in touch, ridden to challenge over 2f out, stayed on same pace final furlong
track leaders, switched left over 1f out, soon driven, ran on strongly to lead inside final furlong
held up in touch, ridden and effort over 3f out, weakened well over 1f out
track leader, driven to challenge over 2f out, led over 1f out, headed and no extra inside final furlong
A tough one to call as there is very little to split Dubai Success and Gamut on their meeting at Newbury last month. However, the former showed a gutsy attitude to come out on top on that occasion and is given a narrow verdict as he bids to confirm the form. Last year's winner of this race Warrsan is another determined character who will be hard to shake off if he runs his usual race, but his task is not made any easier by his 3lb penalty and he is reluctantly passed over as his yard has made a really quiet start to the campaign. Moments Of Joy, who finished a respectable fifth in the St Leger last September, gets a handy weight-for-age allowance and is fancied to be best of the rest. In contrast to Systematic, who has not seemed the same horse since he suffered a training set-back and he now has a little to prove. Therefore, it could pay to concentrate on Dubai Success as he is still open to bags of improvement as he will only be having his seventh ever career start when he takes his position in the line up this afternoon. There is unlikely to be much between himself and Gamut if this runs to form but, as the recent rain is more in his favour, Dubai Success is taken to live up to his name and come out on top again today.
