thanks -some nice information and thoughts.I was watching the one mile plus maiden from windsor on attheraces (monday) and pat murphy was saying that the favourite–a sadlers wells colt-might struggle on the firm going.sure enough it ran a bad race and i start to think that sadlers wells are probably better with cut in the ground…then i notice that the easy winner of the race was a colt of michael bells by …you guessed it… saddlers wells.ah well