17:55 Fontwell

Thursday 13 May 2021

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Off time: 17:55 | Winning time: 4m 17.70s

Nye Bevan^t⁷

Age: 6| Weight: 11-12| J: Mr Jamie Neild⁽¹⁰⁾| T: N & W Twiston-Davies| OR: 100| CD

6/5

Has been in excellent form this term and produced a career best to score comfortably at Worcester a week ago. Obvious claims from the same mark.

Form: 25221-1

Fine By Her³⁹

Age: 5| Weight: 11-12| J: Thomas Bellamy| T: J S Smith| OR: 100

66/1

Little impact in bumpers/over hurdles. Slight step up in trip should suit but will need to improve if he's to feature from what looks a stiff opening mark.

Form: 0/0F75-

Carnage⁶⁵

Age: 6| Weight: 11-8| J: James Davies| T: Mrs N S Evans| OR: 96

40/1

Modest form at best over hurdles but little show this season.

Form: 4631/08-

Olympic Honour⁷

Age: 5| Weight: 11-8| J: Isabel Williams⁽⁵⁾| T: Evan Williams| OR: 96

7/4

Well treated on old form and bounced back when runner-up to Nye Bevan at Worcester 7 days ago. Live player if he's able to back up that effort.

Form: 88707-2

Magical Thomas^p,t⁴⁰

Age: 9| Weight: 11-3| J: T Scudamore| T: N P Mulholland| OR: 91| CD

9/1

Three-time C&D winner who has been struggling for form but, consequently, has dropped plenty in the weights, so he's not totally out of it.

Form: 350608-

Lambs Lane^p,t²²

Age: 9| Weight: 10-6| J: Charlie Price⁽⁵⁾| T: J L Flint| OR: 80

20/1

Bumper winner in Ireland back in 2017. Record over jumps is uninspiring but there was a hint of a revival at Taunton recently, so not one to completely dismiss.

Form: 000/9P5-

Test Ride¹⁸

Age: 7| Weight: 10-3| J: S Bowen| T: N P Mulholland| OR: 77

14/1

Fairly limited but produced most encouraging effort over hurdles when strong-travelling third at this track in March. Little chance back on the Flat in April.

Form: 9P/5402-

African Sun^p⁶

Age: 4| Weight: 10-0| J: Nick Scholfield| T: Joanne Thomason-Murphy| OR: 77

11/1

Still to get his head in front and wasn't on his game when fifth at Market Rasen 6 days ago. Up against it from out of the weights.

Form: 60654-5

Lightning Bug²²

Age: 4| Weight: 10-0| J: Charlie Hammond| T: Miss S Smith| OR: 72

150/1

No promise under either code so far.

Form: F67P-

Non-Runners

Global Agreement⁹

Weight: 11-6| Age: 4

T: M F Harris J: J E Moore

Forecasts

Nye Bevan (6/5), Olympic Honour (7/4), Magical Thomas (9/1), Global Agreement (10/1), African Sun (11/1), Test Ride (14/1), Lambs Lane (20/1), Carnage (40/1), Fine By Her (66/1), Lightning Bug (150/1)

NYE BEVAN and Olympic Honour filled the first two positions in a conditionals event at Worcester last week and, with both able to race from the same mark, they're likely to dominate proceedings once more provided the race doesn't come too soon. Test Ride looks the pick of the remainder.