Peter Cooper Volkswagen Electric Golf Novices' Hurdle

Off time: 17:15 | Winning time: 4m 15.2s

Highland Bobby²⁸

Age: 4| Weight: 11-6| J: Fergus Gregory⁽³⁾| T: O Murphy| OR: 115

6/1

Successful for David O'Meara on the Flat and made a winning hurdles and stable debut when taking a small field good ground contest over an extended 1m7f at Southwell last month. Likely to play a leading role once more.

Form: 64435-1

Archimento²⁹

Age: 6| Weight: 11-0| J: L P Aspell| T: O Sherwood

10/11

Winner of four races on the Flat and finished a good second over 1m6f on good ground at Sandown last month. Worth a check in the market on hurdles debut.

Form: 5/

Prancing Oscar^p³²

Age: 5| Weight: 11-0| J: R P McLernon| T: B Haslam

5/1

Ran well to finish 6L third in a nine runner novice hurdle over an extended 2m at Stratford (good) on hurdling debut a month ago.

Form: 3

Thaqaffa^h²⁰

Age: 6| Weight: 11-0| J: J M Quinlan| T: Miss A Murphy| OR: 114

5/2

Placed on both previous starts over hurdles including when third at Uttoxeter (2m, good) last month. Notable runner despite a heavy defeat on the Flat last time out.

Form: 23

Non-Runners

Guns of Leros²²

Weight: 11-0| Age: 6

T: G & J Moore J: Joshua Moore

Maytheorsebewithu¹⁵⁷

Weight: 10-6| Age: 4

T: P Phelan J: M Goldstein

Forecasts

Archimento (10/11), Thaqaffa (5/2), Guns of Leros (7/2), Prancing Oscar (5/1), Highland Bobby (6/1), Maytheorsebewithu (50/1)

HIGHLAND BOBBY can maintain his unbeaten record over hurdles by registering a second jumping success in this small field novice event. The selection has a useful conditional in the saddle and he can get the better of Thaqaaffa who has run well on both previous jumping starts while hurdling debutant Guns of Leros can finish third.