Honest John held up, headway over 3f out, ridden over 1f out, stayed on to lead towards finish

Touch Of Irish held up, headway over 4f out, ridden to lead over 1f out, headed towards finish

Cape Tribulation held up, headway halfway, ridden and every chance from over 1f out, no extra well inside final furlong

Cloudy Times held up, headway 5f out, every chance 3f out, weakened final furlong

Copper Bleu held up, headway 7f out, led 3f out, ridden and hung left 2f out, soon headed, weakened inside final furlong

Charity Lane chased leaders, ridden halfway, led over 4f out, headed 3f out, weakened well over 1f out

Peters Pride held up, headway halfway, ridden and edged left over 2f out, soon weakened

Dayia held up, ridden over 3f out, never troubled leaders

Take Me There held up, ridden over 5f out, never dangerous

Seefin Mountain held up, headway over 3f out, ridden and weakened 2f out

Minella Theatre held up, headway 6f out, weakened 3f out

Timisvar soon chasing leader, led halfway, headed over 4f out, ridden and weakened over 3f out

Captain Oscar held up in touch, ridden and weakened over 4f out

Desert Vision chased leaders 10f

Fassaroe held up, behind final 4f, eased

Blencathra Bay led to halfway, weakened 6f out

Eight Palms held up, behind final 4f

Katapult held up in touch, weakened 5f out

Simply Blue chased leaders 11f

Have You Seen Me started slowly, behind, closed on rear group 10f out, soon weakened and eased

Plenty of future stars are likely to emerge from a race contested by Tidal Bay, Alfie Flits, Wichita Lineman and Tazbar in the last two years alone. This field looked up to scratch with all bar three of these already winners and several having shown the level of form usually required to win, though it is significant that none of these runners had taken their chance in the Cheltenham Bumper three weeks previously. There was only one challenger from Ireland whose runners dominated the Cheltenham contest. The ground conditions and track made it something of a test of speed, which was probably not ideal for several in the line-up and plenty were soundly beaten with the field well strung out at the finish.

HONEST JOHN had shown promise on a similarly flat track at Doncaster first time out and more than confirmed it here, making headway from 3f out and staying on to lead towards the finish. This was a fine effort, beating two runners from stables with excellent records in this type of contest and he is a useful prospect, whether his immediate future lies on the Flat or over hurdles.

Touch Of Irish is more stoutly bred than the winner but had already shown the speed to win two of these and he ran a fine race on this step up in class, leading over 2f out until towards the finish. He is another decent prospect for the future, as is Cape Tribulation, who has more of a Flat pedigree and who had looked good in winning each of his two previous starts. He came to have just about every chance inside the final furlong but could not quite get to the front.

Charity Lane had appeared to revel in testing conditions when winning at Ayr on his previous start but did not look quite so effective on this surface, leading over 4f out and weakening in the final 1f. Peters Pride was not at all disgraced after a layoff of more than a year. Dayia, twice a winner in mares' company, could not get into contention on this first try against male rivals.

Conditions were not designed to show Blencathra Bay to best advantage. Have You Seen Me was well behind and may have had something amiss. (DC)

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