Author: Paul Davidson

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…

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…

2m5½f BetMGM EBF “National Hunt” Novices’ Hurdle (Qualifier) (GBB Race) (Class 3) (4-7yo) Loads with potential in here including the favourite who looked good on debut. But the form of that race doesn’t look like much and he is a very short price against the opposition here. Kasino Des Mottes has the best…

Christmas Hurdle (Grade 1)(4yo+) 2m7½f The stayers hurdling division looks wide-open again and it says it all that Ballyburn is a short-priced favourite for this and Cheltenham in March when he has yet to fully prove that he stays this distance. Teahupoo has always been a horse that has been…

2m (2m16y) Coral Finale Juvenile Hurdle (Grade 2) (GBB Race) (Class 1) (3yo) Manlaga is probably the long term horse to follow here, but she is coming here without a run and may not be suited by the unseasonably quick ground carrying a Grade 2 penalty. Macktoad has to give…