slowly into stride, held up, headway on outside 6f out, weakened 4f out
in touch, ridden and lost place over 3f out, soon weakened
led, ridden over 2f out, headed just inside final furlong, kept on
held up, headway over 5f out, ridden and weakened over 2f out
held up and pulled hard, headway 3f out, ridden and every chance just over 1f out, not quicken inside final furlong
prominent, ridden over 3f out, weakened over 1f out
prominent and keen, went 2nd 8f out, every chance 3f out, weakened over 1f out
tracked leader for 4f, ridden and weakened well over 3f out
mid-division, headway over 4f out, ridden over 2f out, led just inside final furlong, ran on
held up towards rear, behind final 4f
soon behind, reminders over 6f out, lost touch final 4f
An uninspiring contest for gentleman amateur riders to entice punters here, with a short-list of Digger, Irie Rasta, Christmas Truce and Ipledgeallegiance, with the latter taken to get back to winning ways. Ipledgeallegiance did us a favour when scoring at Ayr the time before last, his first success in four years. He had been threatening to get back to winning ways on a number of occasions and duly did the business in that class F handicap. Beaten less than six lengths in the Cumberland Plate at Carlisle last time, he will find this less exacting and can return to the winner's enclosure. Irie Rasta was a beaten favourite at Windsor but is better treated than when winning at Haydock on fast ground last summer, so should not be ruled out, while Christmas Truce nearly took a claimer at Wolverhampton last week and is coming to hand. Digger comes from an in-form yard and showed he goes well for an amateur when given a patient ride by Emily Jones to return to winning ways at Ripon. They then are the leading candidates and as stated earlier, we stay loyal to Ipledgeallegiance.
