Classy Mutawatheb can defy top weight at York

Botany Bay has more to offer over two miles 4.20 York

This four-year-old has run only three times over this distance and recorded moderate form figures of 735, but when running over shorter trips he shapes as though he will improve significantly for a stiff test of this nature and he can finally prove the point now tried in this ultra-competitive 2m½f handicap.

Charles O’Brien’s gelding looked in desperate need of further when a staying-on fourth behind Polarisation in the Melrose over 1m6f at this meeting last year and he remains fairly treated off a 7lb higher mark on his return to this course.