PUNTERS prepared to wait for a perfect betting opportunity will feel they had their reward at Haydock on Saturday.

In her David Simcock days the five-year-old mare Bateel had never been beaten on soft ground. Still owned by Al Asayl Bloodstock but trained now by Francis Graffard at Chantilly, she found conditions very much to her liking in the Group 3 Betway Pinnacle Stakes over a mile and a half and easily justified 2/1 favouritism.