14:45 Bangor-on-Dee

Wednesday 30 September 2020

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Betsafe Leading Over The Last Free Bet Maiden Hurdle (GBB Race) (Div 1)

Off time: 14:49 | Winning time: 4m 13.15s

Dragonfruit³⁶

Age: 5| Weight: 11-0| J: Ross Turner⁽⁵⁾| T: O Greenall & J Guerriero

80/1

Runner-up on the first of 2 starts in points and shaped like a stayer switched to a bumper in cheekpieces here last month. Big step forward needed now hurdling.

Form: 2P-4

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Earl Of Harrow²²¹

Age: 4| Weight: 11-0| J: Adrian Heskin| T: W GreatrexWS

10/3

Fair on Flat, winning 3 times for Mick Channon. Encouraging star over hurdles when second at Catterick in January and fair fifth in Kempton Grade 2 3 weeks later. Remains open to improvement.

Form: 25-

Guard Your Dreams²⁰⁶

Age: 4| Weight: 11-0| J: Sam Twiston-Davies| T: N & W Twiston-Davies

11/2

11/, showed plenty of ability when 19 lengths second in a Warwick bumper in March. Should be up to making presence felt in race like this now hurdling.

Form: 2-

Isolate²³⁷

Age: 4| Weight: 11-0| J: Tom Cannon| T: A King

2/1

Fairly useful maiden on Flat for Martyn Meade. Promising start over hurdles when second in Doncaster juvenile (soft) in February. Should have more to offer and leading claims.

Form: 2-

Master Templar

Age: 5| Weight: 11-0| J: Fergus Gregory⁽³⁾| T: O Murphy

18/1

€48,000 Robin Des Champs gelding. Brother to 2 winners, including fairly useful hurdler Noble Robin. From leading stable so respected if market vibes strong.

Form:

Medici Moon¹⁷

Age: 6| Weight: 11-0| J: W T Kennedy| T: R J Price

150/1

Modest Flat winner. Likely outsider on this hurdle debut.

Form:

Presentandcounting²²²

Age: 6| Weight: 11-0| J: B S Hughes| T: D McCain Jnr

3/1

Cost £105,000 after winning his second point start. Failed to justify strong late support on Sedgefield hurdle debut in November but did win a jumper's bumper on AW 3 months later.

Form: 31/31-

San Agustin²⁸

Age: 4| Weight: 11-0| J: J J Burke| T: T Lacey| BF

28/1

Modest form in 2 bumpers this summer and others preferred now hurdling.

Form: 3-54

White Walker²⁷⁹

Age: 5| Weight: 11-0| J: Harry Skelton| T: D SkeltonWS

11/1

From leading yard but could only manage sixth in a pair of Wincanton bumpers late last year.

Form: 66-

Courteva^h1³⁸

Age: 5| Weight: 10-7| J: Paul O'Brien⁽³⁾| T: S Drinkwater

400/1

No show in bumpers/on Flat. Likely up against it now hurdling.

Form: 50-

Forecasts

Isolate (2/1), Presentandcounting (3/1), Earl Of Harrow (10/3), Guard Your Dreams (11/2), White Walker (11/1), Master Templar (18/1), San Agustin (28/1), Dragonfruit (80/1), Medici Moon (150/1), Courteva (400/1)

ISOLATE shaped nicely when runner-up on his hurdle debut in February and is taken to get the better of Earl of Harrow, who also made an encouraging start to his hurdling career at the beginning of the year. Olly Murphy's Master Templar would come into it if the betting speaks for him, while Presentandcounting failed to justify market support on hurdle debut but won an AW jumpers' bumper next time.