Graeme Brooks Is A Good Guy Handicap Chase

Off time: 16:00 | Winning time: 7m 49.8s

Itoldyou^v³⁰

Age: 12| Weight: 11-12| J: Tom Cannon| T: Mrs L C Jewell| OR: 90| CD

11/8

Veteran, but there's no denying that he knows how to get the job done (5 from 38 career), and this is very much his favoured track. Clearly not the force of old, but won't need to be here, and ran well over C&D latest.

Form: 2-25572

Matrow's Lady^p,t³⁰

Age: 11| Weight: 11-10| J: Mr James King⁽⁵⁾| T: N P Mulholland| OR: 88| C

7/4

A winner from a 2lb lower mark at Lingfield in January 2017 (3m heavy), she'd have almost certainly needed her comeback run here last month, but she does have 6L to find with C&D specialist Itoldyou.

Form: 54/133-4

Flugzeug^p¹¹⁷

Age: 10| Weight: 11-2| J: Kevin Jones⁽⁵⁾| T: J W Mullins| OR: 80| C| D

10/1

C&D winner in May (good to firm), but pretty much all downhill since (3,P,P,9,8,P). Heavy ground a major question mark.

Form: 3PP98P

What Larks^p¹²

Age: 10| Weight: 10-11| J: Dave Crosse| T: Dr J R J Naylor| OR: 75

4/1

Plummeting in the weights, but hasn't won since March 2016 (for Hugo Froud), with plenty of recent 'pulled ups' recorded. Hard to have much faith in him these days.

Form: 5-PP4P4

Canyouhearmenow^p,t1¹²

Age: 7| Weight: 10-8| J: M Goldstein| T: Mrs D Grissell| OR: 72

25/1

A six race maiden under rules (0 from 10 in point-to-points), and we're still waiting to see if he has anything at all too offer. A first time tongue tie could prove helpful, but it certainly needs to.

Form: 3-079P7

Forecasts

Itoldyou (11/8), Matrow's Lady (7/4), What Larks (4/1), Flugzeug (10/1), Canyouhearmenow (25/1)

A poor turnout and with three of the runners making precious little appeal, this looks to be a race for the old-stagers to fight for the honours. Matrow's Lady should come on for her recent reappearance, but she has 6L to find with ITOLDYOU, and with Fontwell very much being his favoured track, he looks all set to roll back the advancing years and record a sixth career success.