held up in touch, hard driven over 3f out, weakened over 2f out
held up, hard ridden over 4f out, stayed on passed beaten horses to take poor 3rd 1f out
with leader until halfway, weakened rapidly 5f out, tailed off, virtually pulled up final 2f
prominent, led 12f out, headed well over 2f out, soon weakened
prominent, joined leaders over 4f out, led briefly going well over 2f out, soon headed and beaten
led to 12f out, stayed prominent, led on bit over 2f out, driven clear final furlong
Mister Flint created a favourable impression when beaten half-a-length by Brankley Boy at Wincanton last month in what looked a decent race and is given the vote to go one better here. The Philip Hobbs-trained five-year-old is entitled to strip fitter for the outing and, with the stable in better heart now, it will take a good one to beat him. Nicky Henderson has a good line to the selection for Royal Rosa having trained the Wincanton winner but the four-year-old was disappointing in an admittedly better race than this over course and distance last month. The Venetia Williams-trained Meggie's Lad has more to do under a penalty than when winning at Southwell previously and a bigger danger may come from one of the newcomers, with Gary Moore's Brave Caradoc, a son of Un Desperado, looking the pick of them.
