Chelmsford winner Rock Lobster.
Rock Lobster took full advantage of the drop in class to get off the mark at the sixth time of asking at Chelmsford yesterday evening.
Fourth following a summer break at Haydock earlier in the month, Rock Lobster duly built on that performance under a confident ride by Jim Crowley, travelling strongly on the heels of long-time leader County Wexford before readily asserting in the straight.
The pair had their fellow five rivals in trouble a long way from home, and this was an authoritative performance from a horse who was well handicapped on his Windsor fifth earlier in the season, where the front four home are rated considerably higher now than they were then.
Congratulations to his owners, Messrs Milmo, Silver, Mitchell, Allison and Lowe, and scoring from a mark of 69 here, it seems sensible to think Rock Lobster can build on this success, with his ability to handle the surface at Chelmsford a trait we will look to take advantage of in the coming weeks.