Top-weight for Harmonic in Stewards Harmonic Way, winner of the 1999 Vodafone Stewards Cup, heads 104 entries for this year`s renewal of the Stg#85,000 six-furlong handicap at Goodwood next month. Roger Charlton`s sprinter, winner of the Group Two Cork And Orrery Stakes at Royal Ascot, has been allotted top weight of 10st 4lb - 26lb more than he shouldered two years ago. Last season, David Nicholls had six runners and saddled Tayseer to victory, having previously won the contest as a jockey on Soba in 1982. This year the Thirsk-based handler has 17 entries, compared to 15 last year. Of these, Tiger Royal (8st 10lb), who was previously trained in Ireland by Dermot Weld, has been given the most weight and he is closely followed by Continent (8st 7lb), the Peter Savill-owned Undeterred (8st 4lb), winner of a Newcastle handicap last Saturday, and Rudik (8st 4lb). Last years`s third, the John Hills-trained Cubism, has been handed 8-13. Wokingham winner Nice One Clare (9-6) and third Seven No Trumps (8-4) are12-1 joint-favourites with William Hill. William Hill bet: 12-1 Nice One Clare, Seven No Trumps, 14-1 Continent, Undeterred, 16-1 Misraah, Mujado, Palanzo, 20-1 Astonished, Cubism, Deep Space, Munjiz, 25-1 Brevity, Candleriggs, Cotton House, Guinea Hunter, Harmonic Way, Literary Society, Mitcham, Night Haven, Pan Jammer, Polar Kingdom, Tayif, 33-1 bar.
