Ravi Road ran decently to be a going on third at Brighton yesterday afternoon without perhaps quite reaching the level of his two performances at Leicester and Chepstow; and there might be two explanations for that; that yesterday was his third run in three weeks and inevitably the ground at Brighton could not in any sense be described as on the easy side; he will have a bit of an easier time over the next week and will look for something similar for him on at least slightly easier ground.

We take Rowdown Roza and Duly Amazed to Lingfield this evening; both making their Handicap debuts. The key to Rowdown Roza is her progression and we hope that she will continue to improve with racing; from being out the back at Newbury to 46 and then 53 in two runs in Maiden company over tonite's c&d; he has to continue to improve to win what is actually a competitive and good class race for the grade notwithstanding the small field; as always with Nurseries it is difficult to judge how much improvement the other three will make but we are confident that there is more to come from our filly both over six and perhaps over seven going forward.

Duly Amazed has also shown promise on all three of his runs, albeit that the last two have been the other side of a setback that stopped him running in the Spring; he has always been a quality specimem and there will not be a better moving horse in the Parade Ring with him this evening. We are hopeful, just like with Rowdown Roza, that he will continue to improve with racing and that he will be better suited to the six furlongs rather than the seven of his final Maiden run a fortnight ago (he might have been third a fortnight ago over six); and he is decently drawn in five; he should take another decent step forward this evening and run well; and, although the amount of improvement he will make is hard to quantify, the significant prices understate the ew chance he has; one market to keep an eye on is the long fourth place on the Exchanges.

No runners tomorrow but Tin Fandango goes to Kempton on Monday afternoon.