slowly into stride, held up in rear and well off the pace, steady headway from 4f out, hung right over 2f out, driven to challenge on rails, stayed on to lead final 100 yards
close up, led 2f out, kept narrow advantage until headed final 100 yards, lost 2nd near finish
chased leaders, challenged from 3f out, every chance final furlong, took 2nd near finish
prominent, ridden along from 5f out, held when not much room on rails over 2f out, soon weakened
started slowly and always well behind
held up in rear, detached and well off the pace, headway, kept on well final furlong, never reached challenging position
led and set strong pace, headed 2f out, weakened approaching final furlong
always well in rear, tailed off when virtually pulled up over 4f out
started slowly and always well behind
started slowly and always well in rear
close up, weakened 3f out, soon eased when no chance
prominent until weakened over 2f out
soon rear of main group, weakened and well behind final 3f
Cold Turkey, Compton Emerald, Princess Magdalena and Havantadoubt seem to be the ones to focus on here with our vote going to Compton Emerald. The Gerard Butler-trained selection made eyecatching headway when tried over this trip for the first time at Nottingham last time and, now that connections can be more confident of him seeing out this trip, looks worthy of the nomination in this claimer. Cold Turkey won at Leicester in July over 10 furlongs from a mark of 65 and has some good placed efforts since to his name too. Princess Magdalena comes here on the back of a win in a Windsor seller, but at least she is going the right way. Havantadoubt is the sole course and distance winner in the line-up, that win coming in June from a mark of 65. On that basis, he should get the better of Cold Turkey and, with blinkers fitted for the first time, might give the selection most to do. There are others with bits of form to their name and they too will attract supporters but, overall, Compton Emerald looks set to run a good race and gets our vote.
