CITYSCAPE put up an eyecatching performance on his return from a long lay-off and can claim the Britain’s Got Talent Paradise Stakes at Ascot.

Second in last year’s Greenham, he was viewed as a likely outsider for the 2000 Guineas but finished a very sore 14th and was off the track for the best part of a year afterwards.

His recent fourth at Newbury promised much though and while this is a step back up to Listed class from handicap company, trainer Roger Charlton would not be one to tilt at windmills.

Marcus Tregoning’s yard endured a lamentable run of form in the first half of last season but with his horses firing on all cylinders this term, Askar Tau can do the business at the Berkshire venue.

The Kingwood House handler suffered a nightmare beginning to the 2009 campaign with a virus decimating his team and forcing a shutdown until mid-summer.

However, he has begun this year in better style and has a live Classic candidate in Rumoush.

Askar Tau very much fits into that latter category after bouncing back from the virus last term to land both the Lonsdale and Yorkshire Cups.

The five-year-old disappointed in the Goodwood Cup but he was evidently not right and shook off that lacklustre performance to triumph at York.

Refreshed from his winter break, Askar Tau looks set to take a hand in the big staying prizes this term and the Moss Bros Sagaro Stakes provides an excellent starting point despite conceding weight.