Higos For Your Commercial Insurance Chase (Novices' Limited Handicap)

Off time: 14:45 | Winning time: 6m 3.0s

Behind Time⁴⁵

Age: 7| Weight: 11-8| J: N P Madden| T: H Fry| OR: 120

7/2

Fair hurdler who won a 2m5f handicap at Cheltenham. Bumped into top class Yanworth first time over fences and tailed-off on both starts since. Should be a different story this time over a more suitable trip and with the ground more to his liking.

Form: 146-534

Speedalong^t²³

Age: 7| Weight: 11-1| J: Nick Scholfield| T: J Scott| OR: 113

9/1

Quickly switched to fences after running just once in handicaps over hurdles where his mark looked a harsh. Tailed off on chase debut and this looks a tougher race.

Form: 0P42-26

Triopas²¹

Age: 6| Weight: 10-13| J: Mr Tommie M O'Brien⁽⁵⁾| T: T Lacey| OR: 111

1/1

Runner-up in sole start in a point-to-point and makes chase debut having won four of his last five over hurdles. Signs last time the handicapper was catching up with him and he has looked better over further.

Form: 313111

Cap Horner¹⁷

Age: 6| Weight: 10-12| J: J McGrath| T: J W Mullins| OR: 110

5/2

Handles soft and his Lingfield victory came over further. Outpaced over 2m3f last time and faces a similar scenario here in a race that could turn tactical.

Form: 35P1P4

Forecasts

Triopas (1/1), Cap Horner (5/2), Behind Time (7/2), Speedalong (9/1)

Just a small field but one where there are serious doubts about all the contenders. Speedalong is dismissed after a disappointing chase debut and with his mark looking up with events. Triopas is in fine form, but he looks fully weighted for a chase debut over a trip that is shy of his best and in a race that could turn tactical. BEHIND TIME can be excused his three runs over fences given they have come over distances shorter than ideal and on ground that may have been too lively. Cap Horner could help set the pace as he has done so in the past and stays much further than this. There is a doubt he wants the ground as testing as this, but he still warrants respect in a race where nothing stands out