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2m½f (2m87y) (Old) Sky Bet Supreme Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 1) (GBB Race) (Class 1) (4yo+) The solution to a fiendishly difficult puzzle is often the obvious, and looking for reasons to take on OLD PARK STAR is not easy. He jumps brilliantly, strides like a class horse and has looked a class apart in his…

3m1f (Old) Trustmarque Ultima Handicap Chase (Premier Handicap) (GBB Race) (Class 1) (5yo+) It’s interesting that Oliver Greenall and Josh Guerriero run both Jagwar and Iroko here. I can’t have Jagwar, whose jumping never seems to hold up although I respect the fact that he may have been crying out…

2m½f (2m87y) (Old) McCoy Contractors Juvenile Handicap Hurdle (Premier Handicap) (Registered As The Fred Winter) (GBB) (Class 1) (4yo) This is always nails, and I make no excuses that sometimes you’d be better off throwing darts at a dartboard. But I’ve been looking to see where WINSTON JUNIOR would end…

3m6f (3m5f201y) (Old) National Hunt Challenge Cup Novices’ Handicap Chase (GBB Race) (Class 2) (5yo+ 0-145) It may not be the most original, but I am looking at the top of the market here. Rebecca Curtis claimed this with Haiti Couleurs last season and she is back again with another…

3m½f (3m58y) Albert Bartlett Prestige Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 2) (GBB Race) (Class 1) (5yo+) It’s going to be attritional stuff at Haydock on Saturday but one who looks like he has the right constitution for it is UBATUBA for Olly Murphy. He has hosed up on two occasions at Leicester…

2m½f (2m69y) William Hill Hurdle (Premier Handicap) (GBB Race) (Class 1) (4yo+) WELLINGTON ARCH was supposed to be going chasing this season but has returned over hurdles, which may imply connections think he’s still got a big handicap in him. He won one of those at the Grand National meeting…

2m Tattersalls Ireland Novice Hurdle (Grade 1) (5yo+) Willie Mullins often runs some of his best novices in this race and the conditions might just be in favour of KING RASKO GREY here. His only hurdles start of this came against the Champion Bumper third, Shuttle Diplomacy who has since…

2m5½f (2m5f107y) O’Driscolls Irish Whiskey Leopardstown Handicap Chase (Grade 3) (5yo+) The ground is going to be very testing at Leopardstown and that could suit both of our selections here. KINTURK KALANISI ran an absolute blinder in the Paddy Power Chase leading from the front before just getting collared on…

3m½f (3m100y) Paddy Power Irish Gold Cup Chase (Grade 1) (5yo+) Galopin Des Champs has been imperious his favourite course on heavy ground and the ten-year-old returns to defend his Irish Gold Cup. He got tired on his seasonal reappearance when he was defeated by the unexposed Affordale Fury and…

2m1f (New) JCB Triumph Trial Juvenile Hurdle (Grade 2) (Registered As The Finesse) (GBB Race) (Class 1) (4yo) Maestro Conti and Minella Yoga look like nice prospects and I prefer the latter out of the two based on what they have done so far in their careers. both very inexperienced…