RACE REPORT

Man The Gate: 1999 b g ex Girl At The Gate (Formidable (USA)
eProcurement Apprentice Handicap, Epsom, £4.025, 1m4f, g/s

1st

 Man The Gate

7/2

 8.10

2nd

 Garston Star

10/1

 7.9

3rd

 Stolen Hours

11/4

 9.4

Distances: 2, 7

Time: 2m 44.13s

Ran: 7

Trainer: P D Cundell

Jockey: N Chalmbers (3)

Owner: John G Morely

 With nearly three-quarters-of-an-inch of rain in the preceding 24 hours the going changed from good-to-firm to good-to-soft and predictably the runners came over to the stands rail in the straight where Garston Star was still holding the lead he had taken from the start.
In fact he did so to such effect that he was not headed until a furlong from home when Man The Gate went past him and even then Garston Star made the winner work hard to assert his superiority.
In the end, though, Man The Gate, in spite of a tendency to hang to his left down the hill, was the better of the pair and with these sort of conditions that he enjoys he is capable of going in again at this level

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