Sixties Sue so solid on the surface at Salisbury

Almost all of Sixties Sue's best form has come when the ground is good to soft or worse and she ran her best race for a while when second off her career low mark at Lingfield last time.

That was her first run on an easy surface since she was out of her depth and badly drawn behind Mr Lupton in a big handicap at York, but a couple of starts before that she had been a length-and-a-half third to Willytheconqueror (15lb higher now) off 88 at Sandown and despite her recent 1lb rise she remains 10lb below that mark.

Sixties Sue twice just missed out on some black type in competitive Listed races on good to soft and soft ground last autumn (fourth each time) and if she is hitting form at the same time again she has to go close off just 78.