20:10 Taunton

Thursday 27 April 2023

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Rowcliffes Handicap Chase

Off time: 20:10 | Winning time: 5m 57.1s

Dindin^b,t¹⁸

Age: 10| Weight: 12-0| J: Fergus Gillard⁽³⁾| T: D Pipe| OR: 97

13/2

Has had a busy season and resumed winning ways in a race that panned out well for him at Wincanton (20f) last month. Good second at Plumpton since and should give another decent account.

Form: 632312

Lady Wilberry^p,t1³¹

Age: 6| Weight: 11-10| J: Thomas Bellamy| T: Kieran Burke| OR: 93| BF

10/3

Maiden over hurdles but often there or thereabouts. Just a low-key start over fences at Wincanton last month. Tongue strap on 1st time.

Form: 353334

Ho Que Oui^p¹⁴

Age: 6| Weight: 11-8| J: Mr Jake Bament⁽⁷⁾| T: Alexandra Dunn| OR: 91

33/1

Fair hurdler in France and produced her best effort for this yard when scoring over fences at Ffos Las in October. Disappointing since, though, markedly so the last twice.

Form: 135570

O'Faolains Lad^p,t¹¹

Age: 9| Weight: 11-7| J: Harry Reed| T: Mrs R Ford| OR: 90

18/1

Raced only 7 times under Rules, winning back-to-back handicap chases (at up to 26f) in autumn of 2021. Got no further than the third on first run since here earlier this month and soon brushed aside at Wincanton 3 days later. Difficult to assess at present.

Form: 2511-UP

Hard Frost^p,t²²

Age: 6| Weight: 11-6| J: Paul O'Brien| T: Harry Derham| OR: 89| BF

5/4

Bred for chasing and duly improved on his hurdles form when just failing at Market Rasen (17.2f) and Wincanton (20f). Can make it third-time lucky in this sphere.

Form: 902622

Scrumpy Boy^p,t³⁵¹

Age: 11| Weight: 11-0| J: Harry Kimber⁽³⁾| T: Kieran Burke| OR: 83| BF

18/1

Cheekpieces on for 1st time when finally getting off the mark in 8-runner handicap chase at Newton Abbot a year ago. However, pulled up there following month and off since.

Form: 95761-P

School For Scandal³⁴

Age: 8| Weight: 10-8| J: Ben Jones| T: J Tickle| OR: 77

4/1

Yet to win and pulled up last 2 starts. Easy to look elsewhere.

Form: 8P33PP

Non-Runners

Electric Annie¹⁶

Weight: 11-9| Age: 8

T: R Walford J: Mr George Hiscock

Cobra Commander¹⁴

Weight: 11-7| Age: 9

T: T Symonds J: H Cobden

Tom O'Roughley²⁰³

Weight: 10-7| Age: 8

T: Sheila Lewis J: Sean Houlihan

Forecasts

Hard Frost (5/4), Lady Wilberry (10/3), School For Scandal (4/1), Dindin (13/2), Electric Annie (8/1), Tom O'Roughley (10/1), Cobra Commander (14/1), Scrumpy Boy (18/1), O'Faolains Lad (18/1), Ho Que Oui (33/1)

HARD FROST has gone down only by a whisker on both his starts over fences and surely would have opened his account had he been fluent over the last at Wincanton 3 weeks ago. He's fancied to make amends at the main expense of Dindin and Cobra Commander.