Uncle Dodo certainly started better on Sunday with the benefit of that first experience on the track under his belt and he found himself within 0.25s of the lead with 3 furlongs to run. Once asked to stretch, he reached an average stride length of 7.32m around the turn and recorded a longer stride than the runner-up (Titan Ready) all the way up the Woodbine straight. The 11.91s that he ran for the penultimate furlong was the only time in the contest that he recorded the fastest furlong split in the field, but it was enough to get him on terms and ultimately his longer stride and willing attitude inside the final furlong were enough to see him reverse the form with Titan Ready. A winning margin of 0.02s does confirm the view from the photo finish that this was a very close finish, but despite still showing some signs of inexperience, the way that he worked hard to get himself to the front can only be seen as a positive. Although his run-out speed (53.2 km/h) ranked only 3rd, the fact that the winner and the runner-up were always in a prominent position in a race run with a finishing speed below 96% would more than account for that and the key statistic, his late speed (58.3 km/h ranked 1st) is the figure to focus on.