12:30 Doncaster

Friday 29 December 2023

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La-Z-Boy At KC Sofas Fillies' Juvenile Maiden Hurdle (GBB Race)

Off time: 12:30 | Winning time: 4m 19.00s

Brora Breeze¹⁰⁴

Age: 3| Weight: 11-0| J: Danny McMenamin| T: R Menzies

6/1

Fair 1¼m winner on Flat for Andrew Balding. Bought for 30,000 gns in October. Likely type for juvenile hurdles.

Form:

Clenched⁵⁸

Age: 3| Weight: 11-0| J: J M Quinlan| T: Miss J Feilden

125/1

Poor maiden on the Flat so doesn't strike as an obvious one to make a winning start over hurdles.

Form:

Ezmerellda²⁸

Age: 3| Weight: 11-0| J: Tom Cannon| T: A King

5/2

Fair maiden on the Flat. Pitched in at listed level on her hurdle debut and showed some promise in fifth. Prominent showing likely in this lower grade.

Form: 5

Leazy Lindsay⁶³

Age: 3| Weight: 11-0| J: Harry Reed| T: Anthony Charlton

40/1

Modest maiden on Flat (stays 1½m). Hurdle debut. Others are more obvious.

Form:

Love True⁷⁵

Age: 3| Weight: 11-0| J: Toby Wynne⁽³⁾| T: O Greenall & J Guerriero

5/1

Fairly useful Flat winner at up to 13f in France. Has switched to a good stable for hurdle debut. Interesting runner, particularly if the betting vibes are strong.

Form:

Miss Raindrop¹⁴³

Age: 3| Weight: 11-0| J: Tom Midgley⁽³⁾| T: Miss Tracy Waggott

200/1

Poor maiden handicapper on Flat (stays 1¾m). Probably best watched now hurdling.

Form:

Oceana Orange⁴⁵

Age: 3| Weight: 11-0| J: Adam Wedge| T: L Morgan

150/1

Half-sister to 2 winners on Flat but didn't shape with much obvious promise in a Huntingdon bumper on her debut in November.

Form: 8

Ruler Of The River^t¹³

Age: 3| Weight: 11-0| J: Jonathan England| T: S England| OR: 87

9/1

Just a modest maiden on the Flat in Ireland for Jack Davison and not as good as being placed on both hurdle starts for new connections might suggest (beaten 29 lengths when third over C&D latterly). More will be needed.

Form: 23

Therapist⁹

Age: 3| Weight: 11-0| J: N de Boinville| T: N J Henderson| BF

13/8

A fairly useful winner on Flat for Andrew Balding. Could only manage a modest third of 6 on her Newbury debut but she wasn't knocked about and could leave that bare form well behind now.

Form: 3

Zooks²¹

Age: 3| Weight: 11-0| J: C J Todd| T: Ian Williams

18/1

Fair maiden on the Flat in France but hasn't achieved much in 2 juvenile hurdles for her current yard.

Form: 35

Forecasts

Therapist (13/8), Ezmerellda (5/2), Love True (5/1), Brora Breeze (6/1), Ruler Of The River (9/1), Zooks (18/1), Leazy Lindsay (40/1), Clenched (125/1), Oceana Orange (150/1), Miss Raindrop (200/1)

It might be worth siding with THERAPIST to step up on her opening hurdle effort at Newbury. Ezmerellda wasn't disgraced in a listed race there on her hurdle debut and is second choice. Love True and Brora Breeze are likely types among the hurdle newcomers.