GRAND NAVIRE (8) brings the most reliable recent steeplechase form, having placed at his past three completed starts and resumed with a third at Nakayama when beaten just under two lengths as a well-supported favourite. He is still a maiden, but his consistency this season gives him the strongest winning case. UP STROKE (3) is the main danger after improving from a fourth at this venue to a close second at Chukyo, and his proven placing at the distance adds substance. ENJOY DRIVE (2) resumed with a sound third over 2880m at Nakayama and has enough place consistency to keep pressing forward second-up. TAGANO BARCOS (13) returns with a useful record around this trip and his third at this track two runs ago reads well enough to make him a genuine threat if he is forward enough fresh.