Read Meg Nicholls' Blog At betmgm.co.uk Mares' Novices' Hurdle (GBB Race)

Age: 5| Weight: 11-11| J: Jack Tudor| T: O Murphy

€125,000 3-y-o, No Risk At All filly. Half-sister to 4 winners, including fairly useful French hurdler/chaser Kazarov and fair hurdle winner/chaser in France Kap Sky. Shaped quite well in a bumper and jumped well in the main when making successful hurdles debut in October. More to come.

Form: 41

Lydeard Girl²³

Age: 5| Weight: 11-4| J: Callum Pritchard⁽³⁾| T: K Woollacott

Well held in 2 bumpers and no real short-term promise both starts over hurdles. Likely one for handicaps down the line.

Form: 8-756

Miss Macaroni³⁴⁴

Age: 6| Weight: 11-4| J: Kielan Woods| T: B Pauling

Blue Bresil mare. Half-sister to bumper winner I'd Go Maniac, from good French family. Didn't show much in a Doncaster bumper a year ago but she's in very capable hands.

Form: 0-

She's Delighted³⁸

Age: 6| Weight: 11-4| J: Jack Hogan| T: F O'Brien

£50,000 buy after winning final 2 starts in Irish points (latest May 2025). Shaped like a stayer in her bumpers so opposable kept to sharp 2m for hurdles debut.

Form: P21-157

Silver Gale²³⁵

Age: 5| Weight: 11-4| J: Shane Quinlan⁽³⁾| T: Katy Price

Third sole start in point bumpers but weakening when short of room in a Worcester bumper during the spring.

Form: 3-8

Yeld To Call⁴⁴

Age: 5| Weight: 11-4| J: C Gethings| T: Mrs J WilliamsWS

Similar form when fourth in a couple of bumpers at Newbury/Chepstow10 months apart and also made the frame on November's hurdles debut at Warwick. Since had a breathing op and there should be plenty more to come.

Form: 4-44

Non-Runners

Deauville Lady²⁹

Weight: 11-4| Age: 5

T: N J Hawke J: James Davies

Forecasts

No Tricks At All (11/8), She's Delighted (3/1), Yeld To Call (4/1), Lydeard Girl (13/2), Miss Macaroni (10/1), Silver Gale (33/1), Deauville Lady (50/1)

It was a messy race that NO TRICKS AT ALL landed at Worcester in October but it was an encouraging start nonetheless and kept to her own sex, she can defy a penalty. Yeld To Call is expected to step up on her opening effort, while Miss Macaroni could be a different proposition this time.