chased leader, ridden 4 out, headway after 3 out, stayed on, not pace of winner
prominent, blundered 12th, hard ridden 3 out, not quicken
held up mid-division, ridden before 11th, blundered 4 out, tailed off when pulled up 3 out
held up in touch and not fluent, behind 7th, blundered badly 12th, pulled up before next
led, mistake and headed after 3rd, ridden 4 out, not quicken
held up, blundered 12th, ridden before 4 out, one pace
led after 3rd, clear 7th, ridden before 4 out, mistake 2 out, clear when eased flat
Tales Of Bounty can give trainer Paul Nicholls another winner at one of his local tracks. He stayed on strongly to win on his chasing debut over course and distance last time, and would not have to show much more to follow up here. Cloudy Creek was 17 lengths behind on that occasion, and there is no obvious reason why the form should be reversed here. A bigger threat could come from Tribal Dancer, a useful hurdler who was coming back from a lengthy absence when fourth here on his chasing debut, and is almost certainly capable of better.