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Stays this trip well, and looked better than ever when taking a 1½m handicap here earlier in the month by 1¾ lengths from Severance. Up 6lb for that, but will remain competitive.

Has looked temperamental, and threw in the towel on final start last year (visored). Gelded, and looked more straightforward when second of 12 to Alignak at Newcastle early this month, but a concern that he's now fitted with blinkers.

Useful front-runner at his peak, but he does not seem the force of old, either on the Flat or over hurdles, and he's easy to oppose on recent efforts.

Progressed last summer with a front-running success over 1½m at Leicester, and matched that form when third at Pontefract. Stays this far, and will be involved if returning at the top of his game.

Fit from a spell over jumps when a creditable second of 10 to Lissitzky over C&D last May, but he's not been sighted under either code since, and is hard to fancy as a result.

Won over hurdles at Wincanton in December. Last seen running in the County Hurdle at Cheltenham, and yard has been doing well with its Flat runners this season. Can go close.

Won over 2m here last August, and just touched off next time. Hasn't run to form subsequently, however, and hopes rest on the fitting of a tongue-tie for the first time.

Progressed well on the Flat recording an AW hat-trick over the winter at up to 2m. Not seen since running poorly over hurdles at Doncaster in February, though, and looks vulnerable back in this sphere.

Form of his win at York in July is not the strongest for the grade, and he's only run once since, when sixth in a handicap hurdle at Wetherby in February. Others have less to prove.