Moore pleased with Time After Time's effort

Punters didn't know where to look in the final stages of the Group Three Sha Tin Vase, but trainer John Moore saw everything he wanted to see.

Moore landed his seventh win in the race and his fourth in a row with Charles The Great (Tommy Berry) arriving in the nick of time at the end of the 1,200m to nudge out Best Eleven and Moore's winner of the race 12 months ago, Captain Sweet.

But the trainer was just as happy with the seventh placing for Time After Time (Gerald Mosse), who now awaits only one more ticked box to take his place in the Golden Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot next month.

"That was a great run - these races are very hard to win with 133 pounds for even our best sprinters over the years so to be beaten only half-a-length like that was a really excellent trial for Ascot," said Moore. "I just need the green light from his syndicate of owners now and he'll fly out on the 9th of June, and my feeling is that if he repeats that he'll run very well there."

Jockey Gerald Mosse agreed, saying Time After Time came to win the race but conceding considerable poundage to most of those that beat him home proved too much.

"He came very strongly, I thought he would get there but just the last 50m he came to the end of his run and the light-weighted horses went past," Mosse said.