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An Outlaw's Grace 0
Tiger Mask +3
Royal Playwright +5+
Field Of Gold +5
Maturity Bay +7
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One look was enough to make me check the figure for the top filly . While it might be a few pounds out she does look worth a punt on spec . Go back to her first outing and she has precious little to find with Doom .
Imperial Quarter 0
Tamfana +1
Doom +2
Spiritual +3
Doha +3
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Ottoman 0
Arizona Beauty +3
James The Second +7
Hugs Girl +7
Barton Key +7
Dance For Chester +9
Last Encore +10

All the claimers are worth their claim  which complicates matters a little .

Red Letter 0+
January +1
Chantez+2
Ballet Slippers +2
Lake Victoria +3+
Bedtime Story +3+
Babouche +4
Swelter +5+
Fairy Godmother +7+
I have left provisionals in . If Simmering was in this she would be joint top .
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Ancient Wisdom 0
Los Angeles +3
Jan Brueghel +3
The Equator +4
Port Fairy +4
Grosvenor Square +5
Sunway  +5
Illinois +5
Deira Mile +5

Ancient Wisdom needs genuine soft going in order that his Noria like action can be used to full effect .
The Equator could be of interest following his fine effort at York . It looks safe to say that he goes on any ground . I can think of three St Leger winners that ran in the Melrose or Ebor : By Thunder , Provoke and Peleid .
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City Of Troy improved yet again at York but is still 3lb shy of his Dewhurst figure .
Ghostwriter should be given another chance at a mile or even 7f .
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There are some nasty people around saying that the Banks overpayment is a publicity stunt . Outrageous ! We all know he is an honest man , a man of integrity , a veritable pillar of the bookmaking society .

**** Deus 0
Quantanamera 0
Arrest 0
Arrest is too short . Edit . Moderator, you are a prize **** !
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James's Delight 0
Jasna's Secret 0
Coup De Pierre 0
Spycatcher +3
Beauvatier +3

Hotazhell 0
Henri Matisse +3
Rock Of Cashel +3
Scorthy Champ +7+
The favourite is a lay here . Giving weight and The Striking Viking has not done much for his form .
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Bedtime Story 0+
Exactly +4
Bubbling +4
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Vingegaard 0
Mr Lightside +2
Do It Now +3
Ardennes +4
Make Haste +5
Tropical Storm +6

Asfoora 0
Live In The Dream +3
Frost At Dawn +3
Big Evs +3
Believing +5
Regional +6
Azure Blue +6

Frost At Dawn looks out of place but the figure comes from her only run at 5f . Perhaps she was flattered , who knows ? Her run against G3 , G2 and G1 winners was over a distance that she did not get .

Ides Of March 0
Henri Matisse  0+
The Lion In Winter 0+
Trinity College +2? Another from the Hazdann maiden .
Wimbledon Hawkeye +3
Whistlejacket +3
Ruling Court +4
Rashabar +4
Hotazhell +4
Arabic +4
Scorthy Champ +5
The Strikin Viking +5
Righter Rightnow +5
Fields Of Gold +5
Ancient Truth +5
Wolf Of Badenoch +6

The Lion In Winter will be close to being Champion 2 y o but he carried his head to one side close home . I have yet to hear anyone from Ballydoyle say that he is the best .
Henri Matisse improved for the step up in trip .

Maw Lam 0
An Outlaw's Grace +3
Territorial Knight +6
Jorge Alvares +8
Arizona Blaze +8

Do not forget that Arizona Blaze has to give away weight , 12lb to Maw Lam for example .

City Of Troy is an uneasy favourite .
Take a look at the form for Royal Rhyme . Everybody trots out the line that he needs soft ground . His runs behind Alflaila and Auguste Rodin were on fast ground and , if you want to , you could make excuses for both of those efforts .
He has less than 2 lengths to find with Alflaila but the difference in price is considerable .
Ghostwriter should love the ground and connections are adamant that he stays .

Try again .

The Lion In Winter 0+
Mr Chaplin 0
The Waco Kid +3
Ruling Court +3+
Rajeko +3
Diable Rojo +4
Wimbledon Hawkeye +5
Ruling Court was a shade of odds on when last I looked and is a lay . At present his form does not compare to that of the Ballydoyle colt . By that I mean the quality of the form .
The Lion beat Currawood who came from a race that has produced the winners of 7 races including a Group2 from 17 runs . The third horse won a decent race next time up . The tendrils of the form stretch far and wide .
Ruling Court beat a horse that finished second next time out and the third horse won a little race at Beverley when next seen .
A case could be made for Yaroogh but one would have to believe that Seagull Eleven ran to his best on his debut .