Kokbastau looks a proper one for Top 40

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The Top 40 Prospects in AOTF continue to roll along and Kokbastau gained his second victory of the season and looks a three year old with a bright future. Making his handicap debut off 88 over a mile and a half at Kempton on Wednesday evening, Roger Varian's runner destroyed his eleven opponents by upwards of five lengths. Sat in behind the leaders down the backstraight, the son of Wootton Bassett made his move once a gap opened up inside the final quarter of a mile. Within a matter of strides, Cieren Fallon's mount hit the front and bounded clear. Likely to be suited by some ease in the ground on the turf, he looks a Group horse in the making. In the meantime, perhaps he will be saved for the £100,000 Old Rowley Cup at Newmarket (9th October). Either way, he is a cracking prospect.

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