Hamilton

Soft ground will be a new experience for all the field but the two at the head of the weights may hold a class edge. Harley won easily over C&D last month and should make another bold bid but BATTLE FEVER ran a stormer in the big sales race at the Ebor meeting, finding only a high-class filly too strong. While the nature of those races can make them tricky to assess, he had 18 rivals in arrears and his revised mark could still have some juice in it.[Paul Smith]