held up, headway 10th, driven and outpaced after 3 out
behind, no chance from 11th
led to after 3rd, stayed close up, led 10th to 3 out, one pace from next
held up in touch, steady headway from 10th, led 3 out, clear when jumped left last
prominent, driven 7th, mistake 8th, soon lost touch, tailed off when pulled up before 2 out
close up, led 6 to after 10th, weakened rapidly, tailed off when pulled up before 3 out
held up towards rear, good headway to track leaders 10th, joined leader next, kept on one pace from 3 out
behind, driven along 7th, struggling 11th, tailed off
prominent, led 3rd ot after 6th, weakened and behind from 9th, continued tailed off
A tricky low-grade handicap where, as is only to be expected, plenty of the field hold solid claims. However, Christophe has improved for the step up to this sort of trip of late and is just preferred over Harry Collins, Pardon What and Torpica, who head the list of dangers, although it would also be foolhardy to completely rule out a bold bid from Rivers Reine now that Mick Fitzgerald has consented to do the steering. However, Christophe has thrived since winning a seller here at the start of last month and, as he faces much similar company to when he followed up at Warwick when he was last seen out, he will be very hard to peg-back as he bids for the hat-trick. Harry Collins has a useful conditional booked and could be the best of the rest.