held up and keen, headway approaching 5th, led briefly approaching 2 out, soon ridden, one pace flat
made most to 3 out, weakened quickly
tracked leaders, led approaching 2 out, ridden approaching last, ran on
held up, ridden and headway approaching 2 out, one pace flat
tracked leaders, lost place 5th, soon ridden, weakened 2 out
not fluent, disputed lead until led 3 out, ridden and headed approaching 2 out, soon weakened
in touch, ridden after 3 out, stayed on to go 2nd flat, not trouble winner
Looking Down is the logical choice in this seller and is taken to score at the main expense of Blaise Wood and Canni Thinkaar. The selection is no world-beater but is a consistent performer in this grade as she showed when chasing home Dramatic Quest at Stratford last month. A reproduction of that effort should suffice and the daughter of Compton Place is taken to defy her penalty. Caper was no better than plating class on the level and cannot have shown much at home to be running at this lowly on his hurdling debut and of more interest is Canni Thinkaar. The son of Alhaarth hails from a stable very much in form at present and he has to be respected dropping into selling-company for the first time. Frambo, a winner of a selling hurdle at Hereford in September, has been beaten in better races since then and may appreciate the return to this class. She rates a bigger threat than Martin Pipe's French import Sylvie d'Orthe, who has given little sign of encouragement for new connections in three outings since coming to Britain. Blaise Wood has shown form in better races than this and is another to consider being dropped in class but Looking Down has an obvious chance and gets the vote.
