19:30 Sedgefield
Wednesday 19 April 2017
All16:5017:2517:5518:3019:0019:3020:00
Durham Lifting Handicap Chase
- 5YO plus | Class 5 | 3m 2f 59y | Good (Watered) | 6 Runners | Turf | Weighed In
- Off time: 19:30 | Winning time: 6m 43.1s
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Always travelling well in a race where his rivals fell by the wayside. This looks hardly more competitive and, although up 6lb, he can still be considered well handicapped judged on his Irish form. Stable have an impressive 29 percent strike rate with last time out winners.
Placed in a couple of point-to-points and having just her second run over fences. Trip should be within range but best efforts have been on deeper ground than is forecast here. Stable have not enjoyed the best of seasons with just four winners but one of those came earlier this month.
Best effort came over C&D last time on a similar surface and with cheekpieces on for first time. This looks a better race and she is up in the weights.
Winner of a Cartmel hurdle off a higher mark than this. Has failed miserably in two starts over fences and rider is yet to land a National Hunt winner for the stable.
Career record of 6-68 but last win, over these fences, came 16 races ago. That was over 2m and yet to prove he goes beyond 2m4f. Hard to fancy from 6lb out of the handicap.
Record of 1-25 in point-to-points and still to trouble the judge in seven races under rules. Has a stiff task from 7lb out of the weights.
Non-Runners
5
Tommy The Rascal20
Weight: 10-8| Age: 7
T: J Candlish J: David Noonan
NR
6
Houndscourt6
Weight: 10-8| Age: 10
T: Miss J E Foster J: Henry Brooke
NR
Forecasts
Treat Yourself (9/4), What A Game (3/1), Milan Dancer (7/2), Tommy The Rascal (7/2), Sweet Belle (4/1), Houndscourt (7/1), Captain Sharpe (10/1), Nelly La Rue (25/1)
Houndscourt has an excellent record over these obstacles and, after a successful spell of hurdling, returns to the chasing ranks on an attractive mark. Milan Dancer has struggled to find form this season, like a lot of horses from the yard, but things appear to be improving and she may be arriving at the right time off a career low mark. For the selection it is hard to look beyond the topweight TREAT YOURSELF who was always looking the likely winner at Newcastle before being left to beat one other finisher. He remains well treated on his best form in Ireland and is worth following now that his trainer has found the key to him.
- Treat Yourself
- Houndscourt
- Milan Dancer
Prize Money
1st: £2,599.002nd: £763.003rd: £382.004th: £191.00
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