Racecards
18:45 Windsor
Hit Entertainment Handicap (Class E)
- 13 Runners
- Distance: 1m 2f 7y
- Going: Good to Firm
Ark Admiral
65- Form 10-6000
- Age 4
- Weight 9-11
- Trainer B J Meehan
- Jockey Paul Scallan
with leader, ridden to chase leader 3f out, weakened 2f out
- Form 3123-12
- Age 4
- Weight 9-8
held up tracking leaders, led over 3f out, pushed clear over 1f out readily
Afeef (USA)
12- Form 05/52-0
- Age 4
- Weight 9-4
- Trainer R Phillips
- Jockey E Ahern
always behind, tailed off 4f out
- Form 1-30000
- Age 5
- Weight 9-2
- Trainer J Akehurst
- Jockey P Doe
in touch, ridden and switched left over 1f out, one pace
Serbelloni
35- Form 6-46
- Age 3
- Weight 9-2
held up, hampered over 6f out, and lost pace, ridden and behind when some late headway, not reached leaders
Andromache
247- Form 022000-
- Age 4
- Weight 8-12
keen hold in touch, ridden 3f out, stayed on one pace
- Form 0-3303
- Age 3
- Weight 8-11
- Trainer J R Fanshawe
- Jockey M Dwyer
mid-division, ridden 4f out, and headway to chase leaders, one pace final furlong
- Form 220103
- Age 5
- Weight 8-8
- Trainer P D Evans
- Jockey Graham Gibbons
held up towards rear, ridden 4f out, headway and switched left over 2f out to chase leaders, faded
- Form 341156
- Age 6
- Weight 8-8
- Trainer R Hodges
- Jockey S J Drowne
held up, not clear run and switched left over 2f out, kept on
- Form 666004
- Age 3
- Weight 8-8
- Trainer R Hannon
- Jockey Dane O'Neill
in touch, ridden over 3f out, weakened over 1f out
- Form 0/55-0
- Age 5
- Weight 8-7
- Trainer Miss S West
- Jockey N Chalmers
mid-division, hampered over 6f out, ridden 3f out, headway over 2f out, stayed on to chase winner final furlong
- Form 4-00002
- Age 4
- Weight 8-0
- Trainer A W Carroll
- Jockey C Catlin
led, ridden and headed over 3f out, kept on same pace
In depth
Verdict
Guilded Flyer has shown enough to take care of Welcome Signal and Pas de Surprise in this fairly open handicap. Stuart Kittow's four-year-old has been a model of consistency over the past 12 months and started where he had left off with a couple of good efforts on his return. A comeback victory at Leicester saw him gain his first turf win, helped by forcing tactics and the fact that he was better treated than on the all-weather. Similar tactics nearly paid off at Newbury last time but he wandered inside the final furlong and was caught and passed by Mamore Gap. Still well treated, he can make a bold bid to make all from the number 11 stall. Welcome Signal was doing all his best work at the finish over the course and distance three weeks ago and will be fancied to lose his maiden tag sooner rather than later, while Pas de Surprise will also appreciate this trip, having stayed on well in third at Newmarket. Noble Calling can be fancied on a couple of earlier efforts this term as well, but the front-running style of Guilded Flyer will make him hard to catch off his current mark.