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This can go to Ed Walker's unexposed 3yo EMPIRICAL (nap), who made the breakthrough with an 8l win in a Nottingham handicap last time. He still looks feasibly treated off his revised mark and has plenty of scope for further progress on this step up in trip. The in-form 4yo Geo has finished runner-up in her last two starts but the main threat could come from eight-time turf winner Pearl Eye, who justified favouritism over C&D two weeks ago.[David Moon]