Close-coupled gelding: useful performer: won maiden at Navan in July and handicap at Naas (by 1½ lengths from Collective Power) in August: in first-time blinkers, 12/1, below form when 6¾ lengths eleventh of 15 to Keke in handicap at the Curragh last time: stays 6f: acts on good to firm going: sometimes in cheekpieces. M. D. O'Callaghan, Ireland