slowly into stride, behind, not clear run over 2f out, headway over 1f out, ridden and hung left inside final furlong, ran on to lead close home
held up, headway and not clear run well over 1f out, soon ridden, not much room inside final furlong, kept on
chased leaders, ridden to lead over 1f out, headed close home
mid-division, ridden and edged left when rider dropped whip over 1f out, stayed on final furlong, never trouble leaders
slowly into stride, soon prominent, led over 4f out, ridden and headed over 2f out, weakened over 1f out
led, headed over 4f out, led again over 2f out, ridden and headed over 1f out, weakened inside final furlong
towards rear, ridden and headway over 1f out, one pace final furlong
in touch, ridden and headway when edged left over 1f out, edged left again and not much room inside final furlong, stayed on
mid-division, ridden and headway over 2f out, held when not much room inside final furlong, soon eased
chased leaders, ridden over 2f out, weakening when not much room over 1f out
Not a bad nursery where we can shortlist Ratukidul, Dance Flower, Lady Misha, and Glorious Step, and the vote goes to Ratukidul. The Danehill filly defied a bad start and some greenness to get up close home and land a Folkestone maiden last month, when she gave the impression that the step up would be ideal. Darryll Holland was glowing in his praise of her that day and now Kieren Fallon gets the leg up, and with improvement to come we can see her being too good for these rivals. Top weight Glorious Step was bogged down in the Deauville mud last time, but back over a trip and on ground that both suited when she won at Windsor in August, she comes back into the equation, especially with John Gosden really hitting form. She is respected, while Dance Flower showed us enough over seven furlongs at Doncaster last time to suggest that this step up to a mile may not be beyond her, despite her breeding suggesting that it might. Of the remainder, Lady Misha is likely to be thereabouts, based on an unlucky second at Newcastle over this trip last time out. She has handled decent ground well enough earlier in the campaign although recent form indicates her preference is for cut. For us though, Ratukidul has the right credentials and can follow up that debut success.
