TODAY’S John Smith’s Cup at York brings together a slew of fascinating contenders, as it usually does.

Caradoc is one. Ed Walker’s horse put up a good performance to finish a close-up third in a good handicap over a mile and a half at York’s Ebor meeting last year. He got caught in traffic that day, he had to make a lot of ground up on the leaders, and he did make up a lot of ground before his run started to flatten out close home.