13:10 Lingfield

Tuesday 21 November 2023

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Favourite From The Sun Now Daily Novices' Hurdle (GBB Race)

Off time: 13:11 | Winning time: 4m 6.46s

Aworkinprogress²⁵⁴

Age: 4| Weight: 11-0| J: R P McLernon| T: N J Gifford

25/1

€92,000 3-y-o, Soldier of Fortune gelding. Half-brother to fair hurdler City Derby. Hardly set the world alight in a couple of maiden points earlier this year but it will nevertheless be interesting to see how he shapes up in the betting on this Rules debut.

Form: 64-

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Colours On Canvas²³⁶

Age: 4| Weight: 11-0| J: Harry Reed| T: J & S Best

9/2

Shaped well when fourth on debut in a big-field Naas maiden hurdle (16.3f, soft) during the spring. Will surely go close here if able to build on that starting out for new connections.

Form: 4-

Lone Soldier¹⁹

Age: 5| Weight: 11-0| J: Harry Skelton| T: D Skelton

22/1

Green sole outing in bumpers and shaped as if better for the run sent hurdling after 9 months off at Newton Abbot last month. However, subsequently tailed off in a Stratford novice.

Form: 6-86

Pyrotechnic¹⁷

Age: 4| Weight: 11-0| J: J E Moore| T: G & J Moore

5/2

Fair form in just 2 races on Flat in France and was in need of experience and considerately handled on hurdling debut at Ascot (15.7f, good to soft) earlier this month, in what was almost certainly a better race than this. Open to improvement.

Form: 5

Royal Defender^t¹⁷

Age: 5| Weight: 11-0| J: Jack Tudor| T: D Pipe

9/1

Point winner who showed glimmers of ability in a couple of bumpers last season but well held following a wind op on return/hurdles debut at Ascot.

Form: 15B-9

Sao Carlos³³⁰

Age: 5| Weight: 11-0| J: S Bowen| T: O Murphy

13/8

Justified favouritism when making a successful debut in a Market Rasen bumper (16.6f, good to soft) on Boxing Day last year. Absent since but bring obvious potential to the table now switched to hurdles.

Form: 1-

Stenatee^h⁹

Age: 5| Weight: 11-0| J: N F Houlihan⁽³⁾| T: G & J Moore

10/1

Ran out a wide-margin winner of 17f minor event at Angouleme on sole Flat outing for A. Chaille-Chaille in March 2022. However, offered little starting out over hurdles at Sandown recently and Jamie Moore prefers Pyrotechnic.

Form: 6

Stopnsearch¹⁴

Age: 6| Weight: 11-0| J: Tom Cannon| T: B R Johnson| C

66/1

Fair handicapper on Flat (stays 1½m) but has failed to trouble the judge both starts in this sphere to date.

Form: 43-

Forecasts

Sao Carlos (13/8), Pyrotechnic (5/2), Colours On Canvas (9/2), Royal Defender (9/1), Stenatee (10/1), Lone Soldier (22/1), Aworkinprogress (25/1), Stopnsearch (66/1)

French Flat winner PYROTECHNIC should be much sharper following his recent hurdles debut at Ascot, a race won by a potentially useful novice from the Nicky Henderson yard, and he earns the vote. Colours On Canvas shaped well on his sole start for previous connections in Ireland and is feared most, albeit bumper winner Sao Carlos is also accorded a good deal of respect.