York

There are significant queries over lots of them but MINHAD brings a bit of potential to this second campaign, which started so well when he made his handicap breakthrough at Thirsk. Great Bedwyn, last year's winner of this race, has not prevailed since but he is feared most off his reduced mark, while Master Builder has fallen much too far in the weights to be passed over lightly. Mafting and Lightening Company arrive having been highly competitive twice each recently but those races were Class 5 rather than today's Class 4. Substantial rain would bring Galyx firmly into the argument.[Richard Austen]