Out to make amends for an unlucky defeat last time, Duraid can make a return visit to the winner's enclosure following the Stanley Leisure Dream Mile Handicap at Haydock Park today. In a big field there will always be hard-luck stories, but few horses will be stopped in their tracks quite so many times when coming to deliver their challenge as the selection was last time at Doncaster on St Leger day.

However, this race is not expected to pose those kind of traffic problems and Duraid looks to have the ideal opportunity to use his turn of foot to assert close home.

Wahiba Sands is another who has had his fair share of misfortune in running, but could find the small field of the Constant Security Rated Stakes at Redcar to his liking.