Quietly improving with every run — his ratings have climbed steadily across his four career starts and he chased home the winner last time out. All four runs have come at this course, distance and grade, so what you see is honest, but he is still a maiden and his best time leaves him a couple of lengths shy of the quickest here. The inside draw keeps him out of trouble and another place looks his ceiling for now.

Comes back to the sprint trip having run well over 415 metres lately — second in A7 grade last time with his best rating in months. The concern is his running style: he is slow into stride and relies on a late charge, which is exactly the wrong way round for a 238-metre dash where races are settled at the first bend. Quick enough on the clock with a 16.09 best here, but he is likely to give the leaders too much rope, and one place from four course and distance tries tells the story.

Hard to make a case. Her ratings sit near the bottom of this field, she is winless in seven course and distance attempts with a single place, and the kennel has been struggling for winners all season. She occasionally pops up with a better run — mostly over the longer 415-metre trip — but there is nothing in her sprint form to suggest she can trouble the quicker ones here.

The sharpest away in the race and she will show up early — her early pace is the best in this field by some way. The problems come after that: she is drawn in trap five, the graveyard box at this grade and distance winning fewer than one in six, she has yet to win or place in six goes at this course and trip, and she tends to empty out in the closing yards. Expect to see her prominent at the bend and swallowed up late.