slowly into stride, behind over 2f out, some headway on inside over 1f out, not reach leaders
raced wide, headway from halfway, soon ridden, one pace inside final furlong
led, headed over 3f out, led again over 1f out, headed and no extra well inside final furlong
slowly into stride, always outpaced
hung badly left soon after start, always behind
tracked leaders, ridden halfway, led inside final furlong, driven out
hung right soon after start, chased leaders, ridden over 2f out, one pace
in touch and keen, ridden and no impression 2f out
soon behind and outpaced
with leader, led over 3f out, ridden and headed over 1f out, weakened final furlong
A weak event which will take little winning and should be a formality for Percy Douglas who gets a confident TEAMtalk vote. The son of Elmaamul has been highly tried on turf and arguably put up his best effort when beaten just under five lengths behind Wunders Dream in the Group 2 Flying Childers at Doncaster's St Leger meeting in September. Although failing to reproduce the same level of performance since, the colt has nonetheless shown some respectable form including over course and distance and should have too much class for some modest rivals. Ex-Irish performer Mollyobrien is hard to assess on her British debut but wouldn't need to improve much to reach a place while Well Red would have claims if able to reproduce his close second in a Chepstow sprint maiden in August. However, neither have experience of this surface and the latter has a four-month absence to overcome so the forecast position can go to Arabian Knight. Alan Berry's charge was a fair third, beaten a length, in a seller over this trip at Southwell last time and may have a little improvement to come in the first time visor.
