held up in rear, headway approaching 6th, ridden and outpaced 4 out, led 2 out, hard ridden and left clear run in
tracked leaders, led after 7th, mistake 10th, ridden and soon headed, weakened rapidly approaching last, pulled up run in, dismounted
mistake 1st, held up rear, ridden 6th, tailed off 9th, pulled up before 2 out
in touch, slight mistake and dropped rear 6th, weakened 8th, pulled up before 2 out, dismounted
led until headed after 7th, ridden and weakened 3 out, mistake 2 out, left poor second run in
tracked leader, mistake 5th, ridden approaching 3 out, narrow lead approaching 2 out, headed and not fluent, pulled up before last
A small field goes to post for the first on the card and it looks to be a straight forward opportunity for Murray River to open his account. The gelding from the Martin Pipe yard was slightly disappointing in this grade last time out when third behind Taw Park. However the step up to this trip is in his favour and he will be hard to beat. Man From Delcarrow rates the main danger he was a fair fourth in a better race behind Jollyolly last time and he has plenty of scope for improvement so he should follow the selection home. Running Times is another worthy of consideration but he has never won over a trip this far before so for that reason he is opposed on this occasion The remainder need to better their best to trouble the judge. So the confident vote goes to Murray River.
