Top Dawn chased leaders, ridden to take narrow advantage 2 out, joined last and hard ridden, just held on, all out
Sovereign´s Joy led 2nd to 12th, stayed with leader and slight lead 14th, headed, ridden and one pace bypassed 3rd last, rallied to challenge on inside next and upsides last, strong challenge run-in, just failed
Meggie´s Beau led to 2nd, stayed with leader until slight advantage 12th, headed 14th, still upsides 2 out, weakened soon after
He´s The Biz in touch, ridden to chase leaders after 13th, weakened bypassed 3rd last
Gumley Gale in rear 5th, headway 12th, ridden next, never going pace to challenge and weakened approaching bypassed 3rd last
Heart Springs in rear 5th, headway 10th, ridden 12th, weakened before bypassed 3rd last
Baron Romeo in touch, ridden 14th, weakened after next
Go For One hit 9th and 11th, always towards rear
The Langer chased leaders, ridden 13th, weakening when blundered 15th
Silvergino blundered 11th, always behind
Dere Lyn hit 6th, always well behind
Highland Chief chased leaders until ridden and weakened quickly before bypassed 3rd, last, pulled up before last
Indian Gunner in rear when hampered and unseated rider 1st
Maori Legend in rear, blundered 11th, tailed off when pulled up before 14th
Noble Buck in rear unril fell 8th, dead
Super Judge in rear until headway 13th, soon ridden and weakened, tailed off when pulled up before 2 out
Alam pulled hard, mistake 6th, stirrup leather broke approaching 7th, pulled up before 8th
Analyis of the race
A modest handicap, but it was certainly competitive. The pace was sound.
TOP DAWN, a winner at Plumpton two starts back, was pulled up off this 12lb higher mark last time at Towcester but a bad blunder did for him that day. Never far away here, he jumped ahead at the second-last but the runner-up rallied from the home turn and he had to pull out everything to hold on. Connections had thought he needed easier ground but he obviously coped well with the conditions.
Sovereign's Joy was in thefront rank throughout and, after rallying on the inside round the final turn, he just missed out. He loses nothing in defeat and seems to have improved for the cheekpieces.
Top weight Meggie's Beau shared pacesetting duties with Sovereign's Joy and only weakened from the second-last. This was a return to form and he remains capable of adding to his tally at the age of 12.
Gumley Gale unseated his rider on his return to the fray recently but this should have helped put an edge on him.
Heart Springs was held under the 6lb rise for her Stratfordvictory.
All-the-way Market Rasen winner Alam was held up this time and his race ended after he had tack problems. He is due to race off no less than 9lb higher in future.
Tote
Tote Win: 8.8
Tote place (1): 2.8
Tote place (2): 2.5
Tote place (3): 6.2
Tote place (4): 1.7
Exacta: 113.4
CSF: 73.2
Tricast: 1695.9
Total SP: 126
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