Rif (FR) 8-1 (10-12) Held up towards rear, mistake 5th, headway after 7th, hard ridden and wanting to hang left from after 2 out, led and not fluent last, driven out, won at Towcester 3m nh nov hdl (4) gd in Oct beating Tullyraine (11-4) by 1 1/2l, 15 ran.