ran in snatches, in touch, driven and headway approaching 3 out, dashed into lead well before 2 out, strongly pressed and narrowly headed last, driven ahead final 150 yards
held up in rear, smooth headway to track leader on bit soon after 3 out, soon chased winner, driven and upsides 2 out, led narrowly last, headed final 150 yards
prominent, ridden and 5th, weakened 9th, pulled up before 10th
left in lead after 1st, headed 7th, weakened after 4 out
close-up, ridden and outpaced by first two before 2 out, weakened before last
mostly tracked leader, led 7th, headed well before 2 out, soon outpaced and beaten
led until ran through rails after 1st, ran out
prominent, went 2nd 9th, well outpaced and beaten before 2 out
The in-form Graffiti Tongue makes the most appeal here, while Manque Neuf is open to improvement and can scrap it out with Unusual Suspect as the best of the rest. The latter has course form to his name but has to bounce back from a below par run last time, though. Manque Neuf looks well treated at present and can pick up a small race somewhere along the line. He ran his best race over hurdles when he finished second at Plumpton last month and can go close if improving on that effort. However, Graffiti Tongue makes far more appeal over this trip and with the tireless Tony McCoy doing the steering the partnership are fancied as the ones to beat again today.
