16:55 Kelso

Sunday 6 October 2019

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NSPCC School Service Handicap Chase

Off time: 16:55 | Winning time: 6m 30.40s

Pakie's Dream⁵²

Age: 5| Weight: 12-1| J: Sean Quinlan| T: J Candlish| OR: 107

8/1

Winless in six runs over hurdles and two over fences in Ireland but ran his best race on his final start in August over the larger obstacles. Bit to find off this mark on stable and handicap debut.

Form: 8-83065

Late Date¹⁶³

Age: 8| Weight: 11-12| J: Billy Garritty⁽⁵⁾| T: Micky Hammond| OR: 104

6/1

Two from six over fences and returns following a pulled up effort in April. Can go very well fresh so with the riders claim he's weighted to be involved. One for the shortlist.

Form: P1P41P-

Nortonthorpelegend⁴³

Age: 9| Weight: 11-10| J: Henry Brooke| T: R Menzies| OR: 102

2/1

Gained a seventh career win off the back of two good seconds and heads here in very good form. Up 4lb but he remains well handicapped on old form and highly likely to be competitive again.

Form: 114-221

Prince Dundee^p,t¹¹³

Age: 6| Weight: 11-10| J: Blair Campbell⁽³⁾| T: Miss Lucinda V Russell| OR: 102| BF

11/2

Has hit a fine run of form in lesser grades with two wins followed by two seconds. Up another 5lb and in class will mean he's going to need more again but certainly not one to dismiss.

Form: 5511-22

Attention Please^p²²⁹

Age: 9| Weight: 11-8| J: Craig Nichol| T: R Dobbin| OR: 100

16/1

Recorded the latest of his four chase successes at Musselburgh (3m, good) in December last year but pulled up when last seen in February. Remains inconsistent and returns high in the weights.

Form: 3P251P-

Damiens Dilemma^b¹⁸

Age: 11| Weight: 11-4| J: Sam Coltherd⁽³⁾| T: W Coltherd| OR: 96

9/2

Back-to-back seconds over this C&D recently and although he's on a competitive mark both his chase wins have come in a lesser grade. Poor strike-rate considering his number of placed efforts but should be involved again.

Form: 228722

Havana Jack⁶⁸

Age: 9| Weight: 10-11| J: B S Hughes| T: L Kerr| OR: 89| CD

14/1

Perth winner in May 2018 but has been completely out of form in four starts since and hard to fancy at present.

Form: 3/15-4P6

Arizona Bound^v1²⁶

Age: 7| Weight: 10-6| J: S Mulqueen⁽³⁾| T: Miss Lucinda V Russell| OR: 84

10/1

On a fair mark if you go back far enough but he's been very well beaten on his last four starts including here on last month's reappearance. Others preferred.

Form: 4250-58

Non-Runners

Pena Dorada²⁶

Weight: 11-3| Age: 12

T: A C Whillans J: Rachel McDonald

Forecasts

Nortonthorpelegend (2/1), Damiens Dilemma (9/2), Prince Dundee (11/2), Late Date (6/1), Pena Dorada (8/1), Pakie's Dream (8/1), Arizona Bound (10/1), Havana Jack (14/1), Attention Please (16/1)

Damiens Dilemma comes here in form over this C&D and while he struggles to convert his good runs into wins, he's one to consider yet again. Late Date goes well after a break and returns on a competitive mark but narrow preference is for NORTONTHORPELEGEND who has improved with each of his three latest runs and remains well handicapped.