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Off time: 20:00 | Winning time: 3m 3.11s

(1)

Fox Flame^v¹¹

Age: 4| Weight: 9-13| J: Cieren Fallon| T: C Johnston| OR: 74| C

5/1

Course winner. Three wins from 17 runs last year. 11/2, career best when winning 8-runner handicap at Chelmsford City (13.3f) 11 days ago. 4 lb rise tolerable and should give another good account.

Form: 431591

(4)

Gastronomy¹³

Age: 5| Weight: 9-7| J: David Probert| T: P A Kirby| OR: 67

9/4

Won 9-runner handicap at Newcastle (12.4f, 6/4) 13 days ago, driven clear. 6 lb rise by no means the end of the world and he's a key player.

Form: 4545-21

(6)

Surrey Belle^h¹⁷⁹

Age: 4| Weight: 9-5| J: Billy Loughnane| T: H Morrison| OR: 66| CD

2/1

Career best when winning 8-runner C&D handicap (9/2) when last seen in November, driven out. 3 lb rise could've been worse and she's a leading contender.

Form: 923341-

(3)

Lawmans Blis¹¹

Age: 6| Weight: 9-2| J: Marco Ghiani| T: I Furtado| OR: 62| CD

11/4

C&D winner. Latest win here in March. 8/1, 6¾ lengths fifth of 8 to Fox Flame in handicap at Chelmsford City (13.3f) 11 days ago, left poorly placed. Work to do.

Form: 216135

Non-Runners

(2)

Percy Willis¹

Weight: 9-12| Age: 6

T: Jedd O'Keeffe J: J Garritty

(5)

Clongowes⁷⁵

Weight: 9-5| Age: 10

T: D Steele J: Non Runner

Forecasts

Surrey Belle (2/1), Gastronomy (9/4), Lawmans Blis (11/4), Fox Flame (5/1), Percy Willis (5/1), Clongowes (14/1)

The vote goes to SURREY BELLE, who made it third time lucky on the all-weather when scoring over C&D at the end of last season. She remains both unexposed at this trip and on a fair mark following a 3 lb rise in the weights. Gastronomy opened his account in decisive fashion at Newcastle recently and looks a big danger on the back of that. Fox Flame was also a winner last time out and should be in the mix, too.