led 3f, stayed prominent, led again well over 1f out, ridden and edged left approaching final furlong, drew clear inside final furlong
challenged winner, led after 3f, ridden and headed well over 1f out, every chance when edged left over 1f out, no chance with winner inside final furlong
prominent until lost place 4f out
held up, steady headway on outside over 4f out, soon ridden and beaten 2f out
always struggling in rear (wore cheek pieces)
slowly into stride, always behind, tailed off
dwelt, soon recovered to go prominent, driven to chase leaders over 2f out, soon beaten
held up, brief effort over 3f out, soon ridden and beaten
This Division of the maiden looks slightly better than the first and the TEAMtalk selection is Mentro from a yard who always has to be respected at Nottingham. Fourth to the useful Mexican Hawk on her only racecourse appearance this daughter of Entrepreneur will have learnt a great deal from that experience and is expected to win this contest. Another once raced horse is John Dunlop's Shaamel. He was far from disgraced when third of six behind Ishtak at Kempton when running green and encountering traffic problems. On the downside that run was nearly 100 days ago so he may have had problems at home. Frankskips has the best racecourse form of those on show and showed at the back end of last season that he can handle a soft surface. A 141 day absence is a slight worry but his stable has been in better form of late and he could run well at a big price. Commissar has obviously been slow to come to hand but his effort in a fast ground maiden at Salisbury 55 days ago was good enough to suggest he could run well here.
