Have Your Christmas Party At Perth Handicap Hurdle

Off time: 16:50 | Winning time: 6m 56.7s

Misfits^t¹⁵³

Age: 8| Weight: 12-1| J: Blair Campbell⁽³⁾| T: Miss Lucinda V Russell| OR: 107| D

17/2

0-14 over hurdles and better as a chase but stable among the winners here on Wednesday and loves soft ground. Stays very well so could play a part.

Form: 239722-

Chocolat Noir²⁴

Age: 6| Weight: 11-9| J: Danny Cook| T: M Todhunter| OR: 101| BF

11/4

Pair of wins this summer were over 2m6f at Cartmel and does stay this far. Race may have come too soon when 15L second at Hexham and could get back on track after short break since.

Form: 8-41312

Viscount Wilson^b,t⁴

Age: 4| Weight: 11-9| J: R Johnson| T: G Elliott| OR: 103

4/1

Best efforts were when second twice over 2m back in the spring in Ireland. Yet to race beyond 2m4f so stamina to prove for top connections.

Form: 20P-647

Pinspot^p¹⁷

Age: 5| Weight: 10-10| J: Danny McMenamin⁽⁵⁾| T: Miss Lucinda V Russell| OR: 88

11/4

Shapes like an out and out stayer and showed enough when fourth on come back run here recently to suggest there could be more to come, with the winner that day having franked the form since.

Form: 7735F-4

Pads²⁸

Age: 9| Weight: 10-1| J: Alain Cawley| T: D Bourke| OR: 79

3/1

Long standing maiden who has made the frame fin four of his last five runs but more needed to break his duck at the 31st time of asking.

Form: 5-38323

Non-Runners

Imperial Elysian¹

Weight: 11-12| Age: 5

T: F O'Brien J: P J Brennan

Skyhill⁸⁴

Weight: 10-3| Age: 6

T: Mrs A C Hamilton J: Jamie Hamilton

Forecasts

Chocolat Noir (11/4), Pinspot (11/4), Pads (3/1), Viscount Wilson (4/1), Imperial Elysian (6/1), Misfits (17/2), Skyhill (16/1)

In the belief that his Hexham second came too soon after Cartmel victory, CHOCOLAT NOIR may be able to get back in the winners enclosure after a break since. Misfits is clearly a better chaser but as this could turn into a slog, his stamina will hold him in good stead and he could chase the selection home with Pinspot the best of the rest.