Wainwright Handicap Hurdle

Off time: 14:14 | Winning time: 4m 18.93s

Atreides^t²⁸

Age: 5| Weight: 12-0| J: Gearoid Harney⁽⁷⁾| T: N P Mulholland| OR: 100

18/5

Ran to a fair level on his hurdling/Rules debut at Down Royal but hasn't shown anywhere near as much in 3 outings since, albeit he should be sharper than for his recent stable bow and could do better now handicapping.

Form: P-P3664

Lifetime Legend¹⁹

Age: 5| Weight: 11-12| J: Rex Dingle| T: N B King| OR: 98

7/4

Built on early promise to get off the mark in 19f female jockeys' event at Catterick in February and shaped as if back in form when third of 7 in handicap hurdle at Huntingdon (15.8f, good to soft) 19 days ago. Entitled to be sharper here and merits respect.

Form: 415P-63

Heritier^t²³

Age: 6| Weight: 11-9| J: Henry Brooke| T: O Greenall & J Guerriero| OR: 95

7/4

Dual winner over fences last autumn but ended the season in a slump and fared little better on return at Carlisle 23 days ago. Others preferred.

Form: 19355-9

Coilrock^h1⁵⁹

Age: 6| Weight: 10-2| J: Max Kendrick| T: D J Jeffreys| OR: 70

9/1

Point winner who offered little in a trio of maiden hurdles last season, but was in the process of stepping up on those efforts before his saddle slipped on return/handicap debut at Kelso (2¼m, good). More needed from out of the weights, though. Hood applied.

Form: P1/098-P

Ace Time^p¹⁴³

Age: 9| Weight: 10-2| J: Benjamin Poste| T: J R Jenkins| OR: 69| CD

18/1

Little form since 2021 and latest display over fences was also discouraging. Hard to fancy.

Form: 6P8PP-P

Non-Runners

Copper Cove²³

Weight: 11-13| Age: 6

T: J & A O'Neill J: R P McLernon

Grandee²⁵⁶

Weight: 11-7| Age: 9

T: J & S Best J: Non Runner

Rock On Tommy¹⁶

Weight: 11-6| Age: 8

T: O Murphy J: S Bowen

Forecasts

Grandee (6/4), Heritier (7/4), Lifetime Legend (7/4), Atreides (18/5), Copper Cove (4/1), Rock On Tommy (4/1), Coilrock (9/1), Ace Time (18/1)

Hard to fancy any of these particularly strongly, with COPPER COVE getting the nod having edged down the weights since a couple of promising efforts in maidens last season. Lifetime Legend ran well on return at Huntingdon last time and is the clear main danger.