Jumped slightly right throughout, held up in rear, steady headway 4 out, shaken up and led 2 out, clear when edged right and ridden run-in, kept on strongly (op 66/1)
Towards rear on inner, steady headway and tracked leaders 13th, pushed along 3 out, ridden and went second before last, kept on run-in, no match for winner (op 11/4)
In touch with leaders, lost ground but going easily after 3rd, headway and tracked leaders after 10th, shaken up and chased leader 3 out, mistake and lost second 2 out, soon ridden and weakened (op 16/1)
In touch with leaders, soon ridden and outpaced, mistake and lost position 4 out, soon ridden and struggling, lost touch and pulled up 2 out (jockey said gelding made a bad mistake at the last fence in the back straight) (op 11/4)
Close up, joined leaders 3rd, prominent from 7th, outpaced when not fluent 4 out, soon pushed along, ridden and weakened before 3 out, pulled up 2 out, finished lame (vet said gelding had lost both hind shoes and was lame right-hind) (op 7/2 tchd 9/2)
9 ran
Off time:
12:20:40
Winning time:
6m 43.21s (slow by 45.21s)
Total SP:
116%
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