chased leaders, driven over 2f out, soon ridden, stayed on under pressure final furlong
towards rear, and soon pushed along, headway and ran green from 3f out, driven and kept on, better for run
tracked leader, led over 1f out, ridden and edged right inside final furlong, kept on
slowly into stride, chased leaders, ridden and outpaced 2f out, soon weakened
chased leaders, ridden over 1f out, not quicken inside final furlong
led, ridden and headed over 1f out, hung left, kept on same pace
slowly into stride, always behind and outpaced
chased leaders, lost place over 3f out, soon ridden, weakened over 1f out
Bryan McMahon has a good record at this meeting and looks to have found a suitable opportunity for Local Poet to open his account and is taken to do so at the main expense of the newcomer Bollin Archie and Diamond Shannon. The last mentioned ran with credit when finding just Mouseman too good in a Lingfield seller in September but this represents a step up in class. Tim Easterby's well related debutante Bollin Archie would not need to be anything out of the ordinary to play a hand in the finish but he will need to be useful to beat Local Poet. Bryan McMahon's colt showed a decent level of form in all four starts as a juvenile and a reproduction of his best should suffice. The other newcomer in the field Onyx makes very limited appeal on breeding and, with Blade's Edge seemingly little better than moderate, a bigger threat may come from Hugh Collingridge's Velocitas. However, Local Poet holds solid claims and is impossible to oppose.
