Border Minstrel Pub Handicap Stakes

Gemini Man arrives on the back of a second two starts back and back-to-back wins earlier in the sequence, showing he knows how to win, and he has run over today's trip and going before and carries 135 lb; the risk is that fourth last time out leaves him needing to bounce back.

Winless in his last six starts, Bruce Banner has been frustratingly consistent without delivering, and his rating places him among the outsiders here; 49 days off the track adds a fitness query, though he has run over today's trip and going before.

Bouboule has run over today's trip and going, and our rating of 60 puts him second among the nine runners despite a modest official mark — the danger is that he arrives winless in his last five starts and has been off the track for 74 days.

Lawmans Blis won last time out and has run over today's trip and going, but his record in recent starts also shows a pair of sixth-place finishes, suggesting consistency is the issue; 134 lb is no easy burden at an official mark of 49.

Winless in his last five starts, Brunello Breeze nonetheless rates narrowly the pick on our figures and has run over today's trip and going, returning after just 14 days' rest, though he will need to find more than recent efforts suggest.