Fairly useful performer: won maiden at Bath in April: ran well when sixth of 13 in handicap at Wolverhampton (3 lengths behind Glam Squad) in August: off 9 weeks, 28/1, shaped as if better for run when 8 lengths eleventh of 14 to Siempre Arturo in handicap at Kempton last time, held when short of room briefly final 1f: stays 1¼m: acts on tapeta, good to firm and heavy going. George Boughey