Conditions prefer Blue Vinyl in Kenneth Mattis Memorial

Expect a third walk in the park for BLUE VINYL, handed Sunday's Kenneth Mattis Memorial on parole, having served whatever time the conditions stipulate, without an open-allowance win since April, as if the calendar changes class, which he will prove at nine furlongs and 25 yards.

BLUE VINYL appears to be a stuck record (no pun intended) at the overnight allowance level, getting a third crack at hapless rivals in five months, having ventured to open allowance once since - a fourth-place run behind near 12-length winner RUNAWAY ALGO - suggesting the 2000 Guineas and St Leger winner was perfectly at home and has no business down in class for the feature.

The overnight-allowance repeat offender galloped six furlongs in 1:14.0 last Sunday morning; workout horses categorised in grade one would die for heading into any assignment at that level, more so two classes lower against overnight company.

Rubbing salt into his opponents' to-be-inflicted wounds, BLUE VINYL, denied last year's Triple Crown in the Jamaica Derby by ATOMICA after foiling her bid in the St Leger, clocked an open allowance-accepted 1:33.3 in defeat at seven and a half furlongs behind out-of-class importee RUNAWAY ALGO, who has since franked that form with a hat-trick, twice beating grade one's summer star, fellow American I AM FRED.

PRESS CONFERENCE might have won two overnight-allowance events, but both were at five furlongs straight, plus he hasn't raced since May, negating his chances of posing any threat to BLUE VINYL. The same goes for POSITIVE ID, whose last win was in February, beating none other than PRESS CONFERENCE at nine and a half furlongs.

Whichever way the form book is read, BLUE VINYL, now racing out of Alford Brown's barn, having been among a handful moved from Patrick Lynch by M.N.M Racing Stable, ought to be a lonely winner again.