13:50 Warwick

Saturday 13 January 2018

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Betfred Home Of Goals Galore Hampton Novices' Chase

Off time: 13:50 | Winning time: 6m 14.20s

Ballydine³⁸

Age: 16| Weight: 11-0| J: Unknown| T: C E Longsdon| OR: 135

Form: 21129/2

Barney Dwan³⁷

Age: 16| Weight: 11-0| J: Unknown| T: F O'Brien| OR: 145| D

Form: U427-31

Big River^t⁴⁹

Age: 8| Weight: 11-0| J: D R Fox| T: Miss Lucinda V Russell| OR: 144

15/2

Took well to fences when successful first time over them at Kelso in October but found life harder when stepped up in grade at Haydock last time. Chances on the figures but does need to bounce back from that, and hard to predict here.

Form: 1521-1P

Bobo Mac³⁹

Age: 15| Weight: 11-0| J: Unknown| T: T Symonds| OR: 127

Form: 221-84F

Duel At Dawn^p²⁹

Age: 8| Weight: 11-0| J: Harry Bannister| T: A M Hales| OR: 141| D

15/8

Looks a chaser on the up, easy winner at Exeter and then ran even better when trying to give weight to Sizing Tennessee at Cheltenham, not beaten far and looked a thorough stayer. He can take this and book his place for the Festival in the process.

Form: 131-212

Flintham^p,t1⁴⁸

Age: 9| Weight: 11-0| J: N de Boinville| T: M Bradstock| OR: 139| C| D

4/1

Full brother to Gold Cup winner Coneygree, and has shown plenty of ability himself, but has a lot of ground to make up on Duel At Dawn on their Exeter form and hard to see how he's going to turn that around. Rain would help his cause.

Form: 10/42P-2

Fountains Windfall¹⁸

Age: 16| Weight: 11-0| J: Unknown| T: A J Honeyball

Form: 11-51FF

Hogan's Height²⁴

Age: 15| Weight: 11-0| J: Unknown| T: Jamie Snowden| OR: 123

Form: 26-2721

Western Climate¹²

Age: 9| Weight: 11-0| J: C Poste| T: T H Weston| OR: 125| D

9/1

Chaser on the up, following up his Ludlow win with a thrashing of the useful Solomn Grundy at Exeter last time, looking an out-and-out stayer in the process. Needs more today but clearly going the right way and will be coming on strong late.

Form: P3/3P11

Ms Parfois^t²⁴

Age: 7| Weight: 10-12| J: S Bowen| T: A J Honeyball| OR: 129| C| D

9/4

Can be keen but it doesn't stop her and she's looking for the hat-trick after wins at Cheltenham and then a Listed event at Newbury, although that may not have been the strongest race. Gets a bit of weight and chance if taking another step forward.

Form: 131-311

Forecasts

Duel At Dawn (15/8), Ms Parfois (9/4), Flintham (4/1), Big River (15/2), Western Climate (9/1)

Flintham is likely to give this a go from the front but he's got an awful lot of ground to find if he's to beat DUEL AT DAWN and Alex Hales's improving stayer is taken to win this en route to a crack at the National Hunt Chase at the Cheltenham Festival. His second to Sizing Tennessee looks all the better after that one pushed Yanworth all the way next time out and he's a worthy favourite. Ms Parfois is another that keeps progressing and should get involved, but a bigger danger could be Western Climate, who impressed when winning last time out and will enjoy this test.