This looks a competitive contest for the grade, with four last-time-out winners, three of which are lightly raced and open to improvement. However, they are all found at the head of the market.

This is a 13-runner handicap offering four places in many markets, so a longer-priced each-way option offers more appeal.

Prince Cleni, trained by the excellent Christian Williams and ridden by rising star Jack Tudor, offers definite promise of better things to come.

The market always seems to have a strong influence on Williams runners, with horses invariably shortening or lengthening markedly in price the night before. But closer inspection suggests such market moves are often way off the mark.

Prince Cleni has drifted out to touch 28/1 and that seems far too big for his chances.
He is bred to be a three-miler and was campaigned mainly over two miles to get his handicap mark. He was duly outpaced but wasn't given a hard time and still made minor headway late on, suggesting he is very much a handicap project over staying trips.

This year he had a seasonal pipe opener and then went chasing over two miles five furlongs, but jumped poorly and could only finish third of five.

He now reverts to hurdles (over which he jumped well in his novice races) and is stepped up to three miles, which looks bound to suit based on his pedigree, and that, combined with a lovely low mark of just 82, makes him look really an interesting prospect.

He looks very much worth an each-way play at 25/1 and and even if his price tightens, he still offers good value as low as 14/1.