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Horse Racing

Mon November 09, 2026 · 1d ago

Timeform provide an overview of three things to note on Tuesday.

Beginners chase the Fairyhouse highlight

There’s little doubt that the beginners chase (14:00) is the most interesting race on the Fairyhouse card, such races in Ireland almost always attracting much more competitive fields than the equivalent novices in Britain. The dozen runners in this one, for example, seven of them trained by either Willie Mullins or Gordon Elliott, include no fewer than five who achieved ratings of 140 or more over hurdles last season.

They include Hiddenvalley Lake, winner of the 2025 Liverpool Hurdle for Henry de Bromhead and fifth in a deeper renewal of that race in April. However, he’s having a second crack at fences at the age of nine (fell on his chasing debut in 2023) and didn’t look a natural over the larger obstacles when narrowly beaten at Wexford in May. Of those having their first starts over fences here, the Gigginstown pair Ballyfad and Storm Heart appeal most for Elliott and Mullins respectively. Ballyfad was placed in Grade 1 novice hurdles at Leopardstown and Aintree last season, while Storm Heart was third at the Cheltenham Festival in the BetMGM (formerly Coral) Cup.

The one who gets the nod, though, is Glen Kiln for Harry Kelly. Carrying the colours made famous by Limestone Lad, he was an appropriate winner of the Grade 3 race named after the Bowe family’s prolific winner at Naas in January and to whom he is related, making all the running as Limestone Lad often did. Glen Kiln earned the ‘Horse In Focus’ flag on his chasing debut at this course last month, conceding first run to Elliott’s Manoir de Mirande and going down by a short head conceding 9 lb to the four-year-old. Glen Kiln can improve on that and will appreciate this extra half-mile.

Watch out for Ricochet

John Dawson, who won the Hunters’ Chase at the Cheltenham Festival on Sine Nomine in 2024, has made an eye-catching start to his training career, winning a listed bumper at Newbury last season and then landing a Grade 2 novice hurdle at Cheltenham last month when 20/1 shot Kingofthefrontier got the better of Nicky Henderson and Dan Skelton-trained runners. That’s from a total of just seven winners under Rules to date.

Another winner for the North Yorkshire stable is Cap Ricochet who is two out of two over fences having won a couple of novice handicaps at Market Rasen last month. He carries very famous colours too, those of Richard Burridge, owner-breeder of Desert Orchid, and he comes from the same family as ‘Dessie’. The front-running Cap Ricochet was only modest at best over hurdles but is proving a different proposition over fences and looks well up to completing his hat-trick in a similar event at Huntingdon (14:40).

Having jumped well, Cap Richochet was headed at the last but rallied on the flat to beat Golly Gosh a neck for his latest win. Cap Ricochet earned the ‘Horse In Focus’ flag, while the runner-up has since won at Plumpton. Top on Timeform weight-adjusted ratings, Cap Ricochet has more to offer and is the only runner on the Huntingdon card with a ‘p’ on his rating denoting further improvement to come.

Spike Jones can repeat 2024 win at Lingfield

Lingfield’s jumping card is an all-hurdles affair on the turf course after the opening bumper on polytrack. There’s only 3 lb covering the field of six on Timeform weight-adjusted ratings in the final race on the card (15:50) where Spike Jones, who has the 'Horses For Courses' flag, is bidding to win this staying handicap for a second time.

Trained in Worcestershire by Sam Drinkwater who had a winner at Ffos Las on Sunday, Spike Jones has his first run since February but won this same race off the back of an even longer absence in 2024 when getting up late to win by a short head.

He went very close to winning it again last year when returning from ten months off, again keeping on well but this time going down by just a nose to Ikarak. That was the closest he came to winning last season, but he was a good third in a better race at Cheltenham next time and ran in some other competitive staying handicaps. Spike Jones is now 3 lb lower than a year ago and looks sure to make another bold bid with regular rider Benjamin Macey, claiming 5 lb, back on board.