15:25 Sedgefield

Friday 4 December 2020

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Sky Sports Racing Sky 415 Standard Open NH Flat Race (GBB Race)

Off time: 15:25 | Winning time: 4m 22.16s

Adelphi Sprite

Age: 4| Weight: 11-0| J: Thomas Dowson| T: P A Kirby

16/1

Cityscape gelding. Dam (h112) 2½m hurdle winner. Yard 9-133 in bumpers in last 5 seasons. Betting perhaps the best guide to what's expected.

Form:

Harde Fashion²⁶

Age: 4| Weight: 11-0| J: David Bass| T: K Bailey & M Nicholls

2/1

From a yard which does well in bumpers and he made a promising start when 9 lengths second at Stratford last month. Good chance he can go one better.

Form: 2

Native Choice²⁵

Age: 4| Weight: 11-0| J: B S Hughes| T: R Menzies

9/4

12/1, shaped quite well fourth of 8 in bumper at Carlisle (soft) on debut 25 days ago, fading late on having raced freely off a slow pace. Brian Hughes up. Could go well.

Form: 4

New Delhi Express²⁷

Age: 4| Weight: 11-0| J: C O'Farrell| T: I Jardine

9/1

9/1, fifth of 12 in bumper at Kelso (good to soft) on debut 4 weeks ago, prominent for a long way. May do better.

Form: 5

Not What It Seems¹⁰¹

Age: 4| Weight: 11-0| J: Joe Colliver| T: Micky Hammond

5/1

In the frame on all 3 starts for Gordon Elliott in Ireland over the summer. Sold for £28,000 in September. Needs considering.

Form: 422

Pitempton Power

Age: 5| Weight: 11-0| J: Callum Bewley| T: A C Whillans

7/1

Yeats gelding. Closely related to fairly useful hurdler Bay Ambition. Best watched unless the betting suggests otherwise.

Form:

Whats The Matter²⁷

Age: 4| Weight: 11-0| J: Danny McMenamin⁽³⁾| T: Mrs A Hamilton

50/1

33/1, ninth of 12 in bumper at Kelso (good to soft) on debut 27 days ago.

Form: 9

Roxanya³⁰

Age: 4| Weight: 10-7| J: D C Costello| T: S R B Crawford

25/1

From a yard which is no stranger to bumper success but she hasn't shown enough in her 2 runs 8 months apart to suggest she can play a prominent role in this.

Form: 8-7

Non-Runners

Liquidiser³⁵

Weight: 11-0| Age: 4

T: M E Sowersby J: R D Day

Moonlight Beam³⁰⁶

Weight: 11-0| Age: 5

T: Justin Landy J: Aaron Anderson

Nora The Xplorer

Weight: 10-7| Age: 5

T: Henry Oliver J: J McGrath

Forecasts

Harde Fashion (2/1), Native Choice (9/4), Not What It Seems (5/1), Pitempton Power (7/1), New Delhi Express (9/1), Nora The Xplorer (12/1), Adelphi Sprite (16/1), Roxanya (25/1), Moonlight Beam (25/1), Whats The Matter (50/1), Liquidiser (150/1)

Kim Bailey is 2/3 with bumper runners here and there's every chance Stratford runner-up HARDE FASHION can enhance that record. Native Choice shaped quite nicely on his Carlisle debut and can fight it out for minor honours with Micky Hammond's Irish-recruit Not What It Seems.