held up towards rear, headway over 2f, driven and kept on final furlong to take 2nd close home
prominent, ridden over 3f, soon beaten
held up, headway when hung left over 2f, driven over 1f, kept on same pace
prominent, effort over 3f, not much room over 2f, stayed on same pace
in touch, pushed along over 5f, effort when weakening over 3f
tracked leader, led 4f out, driven over 1f, kept on gamely final furlong
held up in rear, ridden along over 4f, headway over 1f, stayed on final furlong
led, ridden and headed 4f out, soon behind
An interesting stayers' contest with three last-time winners involved and we'll take one of those in HENDERSYDE to score from Okafrance and Kiribati King. The Walter Swinburn-trained selection is lightly-raced and open to further improvement, and looks capable of finding some here now stepped up to two miles for the first time. His win over Sandown's testing 1m 6f suggests he will get every yard here and the return to a sound surface looks a plus so we'll side with him. Okafranca was an eight- length winner around the Roodee last time on ground described as good to soft, but he will find it hard to be as effective on this faster ground and a 7lb penalty might find him out. Kiribati King is in tremendous form, reeling off a hat-trick at Haydock, Warwick and most recently at Pontefract. All those victories came with cut in the ground and with another 3lb rise plus this good ground he might just get found out. The hoods are left off Neve Lieve today after they didn't do the trick last time and she will like the ground so can show is more this time. Broken Moon needs a favour from the handicapper.
Hendersyde (USA) 8-1 (9-2) Slowly into stride, held up towards rear, headway over 2f out, stayed on to lead inside final furlong, driven and all out finish, won at Sandown 1m 6f 3yo hcp (4) gs in Aug beating Silk Hall (8-10) by 3/4l, 10 ran.
Keenes Day (FR) 14-1 (9-5) Mid-division, lost place over 4f out and soon in rear, headway under pressure over 1f out, kept on inside furlong, 3rd of 9, 2l behind Precision Break (9-4) at Kempton 2m 3yo hcp (4) pol in Sept.
Kiribati King (IRE) 5-1jt-fav (9-0) Held up mid-division, reminders over 3f, headway over 2f, driven to lead over 1f, kept on gamely under pressure final furlong, won at Pontefract 2m 1f hcap (5) gs in Sept beating Kanpai (8-11) by a nk, 15 ran.
Broken Moon 4-1 (9-5) Always behind, no impression on leaders final 2f, 6th of 9, 10l behind Precision Break (9-4) at Kempton 2m 3yo hcp (4) pol in Sept.
Okafranca (IRE) 4-1 (8-0) Led 2f, remained prominent, led over 3f out, clear when ridden over 1f out, stayed on well, won at Chester 2m hcap (4) gs in Sept beating Sir Sandicliffe (8-4) by 8l, 9 ran.
Neve Lieve (IRE) 20-1 (7-11) Led, headed 5f out, ridden and weakened 3f out, 9th of 11, 22l behind Detonator (9-7) at Great Leighs 1m 6f 3yo hcp (2) pol in Sept.
Opera de Luna 8-1 (9-4) Steadied start, held up in rear, hard driven over 3f out, soon no impression, 6th of 11, 12l behind Sunny Spells (8-5) at Great Leighs 1m 6f 3yo hcp (5) pol in Sept.
Purely By Chance 9-1 (8-2) Led, ridden and headed over 2f out, every chance inside final furlong, no extra towards finish, 4th of 13, 2l behind Kiribati King (8-13) at Warwick 1m 7f hcp 0-75 (5) sft in Sept.
