16:33 Uttoxeter

Tuesday 9 July 2024

All16:3317:0517:3518:0518:3519:0519:3520:05

Nigel Kirby Photography Novices' Hurdle (GBB Race) (Div 1)

Off time: 16:33 | Winning time: 3m 59.43s

Valsad²⁴

Age: 5| Weight: 11-7| J: Paul O'Brien| T: Harry Derham| CD

2/5

Useful on Flat (stays 1¾m) and justified substantial support in impressive fashion on last month's C&D hurdling debut. Sure to progress and looks more than capable of defying a penalty.

Form: 1

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Barbarosa^h,t⁴⁹

Age: 8| Weight: 11-0| J: James Best| T: Joanne Thomason-Murphy

200/1

Notched a win on the Flat for Clare Hobson this year but has shown little all 3 starts over hurdles.

Form: PP-0

Dance Rules⁵¹

Age: 5| Weight: 11-0| J: Alan Johns| T: Tim Vaughan

33/1

€48,000 5-y-o, Dansant gelding. Half-brother to a multiple point winner. Dam (c83) 2¾m chase winner. Runner-up sole start in Irish points (May 19).

Form: 2

Deploy To Spy³⁵⁷

Age: 6| Weight: 11-0| J: S Bowen| T: O Murphy

14/1

Shaped with encouragement when second of 8 in a bumper at Southwell (15.8f, good to soft) on debut, albeit no match for winner. Off 11 months but should have a future over jumps.

Form: 2-

Guard Duty^h1⁴⁰

Age: 7| Weight: 11-0| J: Thomas Bellamy| T: Miss E C Lavelle| BF| D

10/3

Bumper in winner in late 2022 who shaped as if in need of the experience making hurdling debut after a long absence when fourth at Ffos Las in May. Hood on for 1st time.

Form: 13/4

Prince Abu⁸

Age: 7| Weight: 11-0| J: James Davies| T: D Shaw| D

200/1

Down the field in a Huntingdon bumper in November 2020. Just modest form on the Flat, proving too free when well held on most recent outing.

Form: 8/

Pyrrhic Dancer¹⁷²

Age: 5| Weight: 11-0| J: Isabelle Ryder⁽¹⁰⁾| T: G Brown

125/1

Went with little promise when pulled up on his Stratford hurdle debut in May 2023. Completed a hat-trick on the Flat in the winter but it's still only modest form.

Form: P-

Virtual Rock⁴⁵⁰

Age: 5| Weight: 11-0| J: Harry Cobden| T: R Eddery

6/1

Useful on the Flat in France, stays 1½m, won listed race at Longchamp second and final start in 2023. Sold from S. Kobayashi 16,000 gns later in year. Interesting hurdling debutant.

Form:

Dartman⁷

Age: 4| Weight: 10-10| J: Miss Jess Stewart⁽⁷⁾| T: S-J Davies

150/1

Fair maiden handicapper on Flat but little impact competed starts over hurdles, carried out by loose horse at Stratford last week.

Form: 95C

Non-Runners

Fortune D'honfleur

Weight: 11-0| Age: 6

T: A M Hales J: Kielan Woods

Thunder Gap²⁰²

Weight: 11-0| Age: 7

T: M A Barnes J: Non Runner

Line Out³⁵

Weight: 10-10| Age: 4

T: L Morgan J: Adam Wedge

Mandega¹²

Weight: 10-10| Age: 4

T: Micky Hammond J: Emma Smith-Chaston

Steel Soldier²⁰

Weight: 10-10| Age: 4

T: J R Norton J: Joe Williamson

Forecasts

Valsad (2/5), Guard Duty (10/3), Virtual Rock (6/1), Mandega (10/1), Deploy To Spy (14/1), Fortune D'honfleur (25/1), Dance Rules (33/1), Thunder Gap (100/1), Steel Soldier (100/1), Line Out (100/1), Pyrrhic Dancer (125/1), Dartman (150/1), Prince Abu (200/1), Barbarosa (200/1)

VALSAD, a good quality recruit from the Flat, ran out quite an impressive winner on his C&D hurdling debut last month and is surely good enough to defy a penalty with improvement on the cards. Virtual Rock showed a similar level of form on the level to the selection and is feared most ahead of Guard Duty.