Sixt Rent A Car Ride Smug Novices' Hurdle

Off time: 15:16 | Winning time: 4m 53.7s

I Just Know¹⁸⁶

Age: 8| Weight: 10-12| J: Danny Cook| T: J Parkinson & S Smith| OR: 131

1/1

Improved plenty over fences last year before a disappointing effort in the Grand National (fell at sixth fence). Unproven on ground this quick though and this may be a pipe opener for another chase campaign.

Form: 3/3412F-

Kapgarry²⁰

Age: 5| Weight: 10-12| J: Sam Twiston-Davies| T: N & W Twiston-Davies

1/1

Winning point to pointer. Shaped well on debut for this yard in a bumper at Chepstow and only found one too good on hurdles debut at Perth. Quite possible that wasn't the strongest race but still early days and has more to come.

Form: P/4512-2

Leodis⁴⁷

Age: 6| Weight: 10-12| J: Alain Cawley| T: Micky Hammond

20/1

A winner on the Flat from an official rating of 51 and hard to imagine him making his presence felt against these two rivals on hurdles debut.

Form: 5/4-

Forecasts

Kapgarry (1/1), I Just Know (1/1), Leodis (20/1)

KAPGARRY is an exciting prospect and he's narrowly preferred to get the better of I Just Know who made in to a useful chaser last season. Leodis is the only other runner in the contest and would need to improve markedly for the switch of codes to play a part in this.