I like Lecky Watson a lot too, I think he’s potentially had a bit of the handbrake treatment and I wonder if Stellar Story is another case for Elliott. They’d be my main two fancies at the moment, neither run in a handicap yet, neither gone beyond 3m but I think they’ll both thrive for it. Gorgeous Tom comes from that same Brown Advisory race which didn’t look the strongest at the time and I don’t think it was for a Brown Advisory but they’ve handicapped it lower than typical too. I’m less keen on him because he’s had a go in a big handicap already in the Hennessy and similar sentiments for Quai De Bourbon who unseated in that same Brown Advisory, obviously already had a go and been placed in an Irish National.
One who I genuinely couldn’t have is Iroko mainly because I can’t think of many who run well in the race in defeat and come back and do better with more weight a year later, just rarely happens and plenty seem to try and get backed.