made all, soon clear, ridden and hung right from over 1f out, ran on
tracked winner, effort over 1f out, kept on but not pace to challenge
in touch, riddden 3f out, weakened 2f out
held up, headway 3f out, ridden 2f out, soon weakened
slowly away, behind, ridden halfway and soon outpaced, kept on to take third inside final furlong, nearest finish
Kind Emperor is fancied to make all in this small field, with Satyr and Our Lady taken to chase him home. The selection is something of a Yarmouth specialist, having won three times here from nine attempts, including his course and distance success at the end of May. He may just have needed his run here a fortnight ago, and was far from disgraced behind Lucid Dreams in a much more competitive field. Satyr followed up an impressive win in an amateurs handicap at Newmarket with a decent second at Pontefract and looks the obvious forecast option. Fantasy Crusader faces a much stiffer task than when scraping home at Lingfield last time, and a bigger threat may come from Our Lady, who produced a much-improved performance to land a selling handicap over a mile here last time. Once again, though, this could be a tactical affair and Kind Emperor is taken to make all of the running for a fourth course victory.
