Daniel Porter's 40th Birthday Celebration Mares' Handicap Hurdle

Off time: 16:21 | Winning time: 3m 59.27s

Ip Up²¹⁰

Age: 5| Weight: 12-0| J: Craig Nichol| T: Jedd O'Keeffe| OR: 111

22/1

Fair hurdler/chaser winner in France for David Cottin. Her opening British mark looks workable but betting perhaps the best guide to expectations after 7 months off.

Form: 385632-

Addosh^t⁴⁷

Age: 5| Weight: 11-13| J: C Gethings| T: S Edmunds| OR: 110| D

15/2

Now 5 lb lower than when scoring at Southwell last June and she arrives on the back of a couple of respectable thirds this summer.

Form: FP6-533

Pop The Champagne^t³²

Age: 7| Weight: 11-13| J: Bryony Frost| T: D Killahena & G McPherson| OR: 110| D

11/2

Bumper winner who was well placed to land 4-timer in novice hurdles at around 2m last for Fergal O'Brien last summer. Creditable second in a Stratford handicap hurdle under Bryony Frost last autumn and best to ignore her subsequent Flat run over an inadequate trip.

Form: 1118-32

On Cloud Nine^t²⁹

Age: 5| Weight: 11-0| J: B S Hughes| T: D McCain Jnr| OR: 97

16/1

Runner-up completed starts in points and got off the mark at the fifth time of asking over hurdles when seeing off 8 rivals in a 19.5f Bangor maiden last month. Folded tamely in a handicap over that same trip there since and now drops back to 2m.

Form: 8-33610

Isabella Bee⁶

Age: 6| Weight: 10-13| J: P J Brennan| T: F O'Brien| OR: 96| CD

4/11

Improved for her leading yard since switched to handicaps, narrowly denied at Newton Abbot before comfortably going one better in a conditional jockeys' event over C&D last week. Escapes a penalty and likely hard to beat again.

Form: 766-421

Non-Runners

Karannelle⁸

Weight: 11-0| Age: 8

T: D A Rees J: S Bowen

Forecasts

Isabella Bee (4/11), Karannelle (4/1), Pop The Champagne (11/2), Addosh (15/2), On Cloud Nine (16/1), Ip Up (22/1)

ISABELLA BEE won readily over C&D last Wednesday and should take a bit of stopping off the same mark if coping with 2 outings inside a week. Karannelle went close off a similar mark last week and gets the nod for the forecast spot under Sean Bowen.