York Eyecatcher Rikki Tiki Tavi promises plenty
His inexperience perhaps cost him when it mattered in the closing stages, as Ralph Beckett's Egoli kept on well to scoop first prize, but it was a performance that points towards a visit to the winner's enclosure at some point during his two-year-old season.
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