tracked leader, challenging when left in lead 6 out, made rest, stayed on well
close 2nd when fell 4th
tracked leaders, outpaced 6 out, effort approaching 4 out, kept on to chase winner flat, no chance
held up in rear, mistake 9th and reminders, tailed off from halfway
with leader, blundered and unseated rider 2nd
led, challenged when fell 6 out
in touch, left 2nd 6 out, challenging when mistake 4 out, soon ridden, not fluent 2 out, tired when mistake last. no extra
A competitive event which should throw up plenty of future winners. Keiran, whose run at Sedgefield was made to look better by the subsequent success of Forest Gunner, must go well, but he faces no easy task giving weight away all round. Joe Di Capo may do better when he goes handicapping and winning pointer King Of The Forest may just find one or two of these too sharp for him. The Grey Dyer has been somewhat disappointing since switching his attentions to chasing, so All Sonsilver gets the TEAMtalk vote. A fine big chasing type, he wasn't disgraced behind Telemoss at Ayr, and he faces nothing of that calibre in this, so he is taken to get off the mark over fences.
