LINGFIELD (A.W) (27 Oct 2005)

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3:50 betfredcasino.com Handicap (2) (3yo+,0-100)

[off 3:54] £12,162.80, £3,742.40, £1,871.20, £935.60 7f

Comments In Running OR TS RPR

1 Border Music (14) A M Balding 4 8-9 b J P Spencer 8/1 89 83 101+

2 2 Red Spell (IRE) (6) R Hannon 4 8-8 R L Moore 16/1 88 77 95

3 ¾ Marshman (IRE) (7) M H Tompkins 6 8-2 Saleem Golam(5) 7/1 87 74 92+

4 shd King´s Caprice (5) J A Geake 4 8-7 t S Carson 33/1 87 73 92

5 shd Sky Crusader (10) R Ingram 3 8-7 S Drowne 12/1 89 74 93

6 hd Compton´s Eleven (3) M R Channon 4 9-4 A Culhane 6/1 98 84 102

7 1½ Greenslades (12) P J Makin 6 9-2 S Sanders 10/1 96 78 96

8 nk Les Arcs (USA) (2) R C Guest 5 8-11 v J F Egan 11/2J 91 72 90

9 ¾ Roman Maze (13) W M Brisbourne 5 8-13 S W Kelly 20/1 93 72 90

10 1½ Chateau Nicol (11) B G Powell 6 8-9 v J Fortune 16/1 89 64 82

11 ½ Uhoomagoo (4) K A Ryan 7 8-11 b N Callan 11/2J 91 65 83

12 ¾ Psychiatrist (1) R Hannon 4 8-13 R Hughes 10/1 93 65 83

13 nk Fox (9) C E Brittain 3 8-10 t T E Durcan 40/1 92 62 81

13 ran TIME 1m 24.28s (slow by 0.08s) TOTAL SP 116%

NON RUNNER: Kostar

1st OWNER: Kingsclere Stud BRED: Mrs I A Balding TRAINER: A M Balding

2nd OWNER: Mrs John Lee

3rd OWNER: J H Ellis

TOTE TRIFECTA Part won. Pool: £763.20 - 0.40 winning tickets. WIN £7.60 PL £2.80, £5.10, £3.20; Ex £144.50; CSF £123.16; TRICAST £970.64Part won. Pool: £763.20 - 0.40 winning tickets.

ANALYSIS: If you took out the successful BORDER MUSIC this would have been a very competitive affair, but with him in it it was very much one-way traffic all the way up the straight and Border Music won as he liked. He is clearly vastly more effective on Polytrack than he is on grass and he will be back here again on Sunday to try to re-emphasise that point. Long-term planning looks like taking him to America next year as Andrew Balding feels there will be far more chances for him in that country.

Red Spell has never won over as short a trip as this and confirmed the impression that this is too sharp a distance for him. He worked his way into second place entering the final furlong, but though he ran on he could never get to the winner.

Marshman,not an easy horse to catch right, was finishing with gusto and is clearly still capable of winning at this level, while King's Caprice was another to be doing all his best work in the closing stages.