held up never troubled leaders
held up, ridden over 2f out, one pace final furlong
hampered start, soon tracking leaders, effort over 1f out, soon weakened
with leader, ridden over 2f out, one pace final furlong
tracked leaders, ridden over 2f out, no extra final furlong
tracked leaders, hard ridden over 2f out, soon weakened, well behind when eased final furlong
made all, ridden out final furlong
in touch, ridden and no impression final 2f
soon behind, until stayed on well final 2f
tracked leaders, riddan halfway, stayed on final furlong
in touch, ridden over 2f out, every chance over 1f out until no extra close home
went left start, ridden halfway, soon no impression
Two thirds of these have won over course and or distance in what's a decent looking contest, and our preference is for Handsome Falcon, ahead of Borasco and Passion Fruit. Richard Fahey's colt was a decent second last time out at Beverley, while his success at this level came at Newcastle. He's well in at the weights, with Frederik Tylicki claiming a useful 7 pounds. Passion Fruit's already got the measure of Game Lad last month, and a slight change in weights doesn't suggest there'll be sufficient improvement to reverse those placings. It's almost a year to the day since she won, but on her day she's more than capable. Borasco won her last race, a similar contest at Newcastle, but may be helped if there's been some rain. It looks pretty open overall, but we'll side with Handsome Falcon
