Deficit delivers in Craven Stakes scramble

PUNTERS hoping to unravel a Classic clue or two in arguably the most important 2000 Guineas trial left Newmarket in the dark yesterday after well-backed 12-1 chance Democratic Deficit, trained by Jim Bolger, scrambled home in the bet365 Craven Stakes.

In an unsatisfactory contest, the winner came down the outside to get the best of a bunch finish, beating Rob Roy by a head with third-home Kandidate and fourth Iceman only inches further behind.

Outsider Kandidate made most of the running on the stands rail with Forward Move, and when the pair quickened things up two furlongs out it looked as if the head of affairs was the place to be.