Walters Group NH Flat Race (Conditional/Amateur) (GBB Race)

Off time: 15:30 | Winning time: 4m 14.44s

Clondaw Sergeant¹⁶⁵

Age: 5| Weight: 11-2| J: Mr Thomas Stanley⁽⁷⁾| T: F O'Brien

11/1

€38,000 3-y-o, €28,000 5-y-o, Kingston Hill gelding. Half-brother to 3 winners, including fairly useful 23f hurdle winner Clondaw General and fair hurdler Valentina Lady. Placed twice from 6 starts in Irish points, including on latest (May 17).

Form: 6P3P6-2

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Goodbye Earl²¹⁴

Age: 4| Weight: 11-1| J: Rian Corcoran⁽⁵⁾| T: D Pipe

13/8

Poet's Word gelding who was bought for €85,000 after winning second on 2 starts in Irish points (Mar 29) and is a brother to a winner, and half-brother to fairly useful hurdler Big Bad Bear, stays 23. Interesting Rules newcomer.

Form: 31-

Memphis Bel

Age: 4| Weight: 11-1| J: Osian Radford⁽¹⁰⁾| T: Mrs C Williams

25/1

£16,000 3-y-o, Buck's Boum gelding. Half-brother to useful hurdler/chaser Eden du Houx, stays 3m. Dam unraced, out of half-sister to smart French 2½m chaser Dom Lyphard.

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Miravis

Age: 4| Weight: 11-1| J: Miss Eleanor Williams⁽⁷⁾| T: Mrs C Williams

20/1

£14,000 3-y-o, Clovis Du Berlais gelding. Dam French chaser (2½m-21f winner). Yard also represented with Memphis Bel.

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Mistral du Chenet²²²

Age: 4| Weight: 11-1| J: Isabelle Ryder⁽⁵⁾| T: T Bulgin

11/2

No Risk At All gelding who was the most prominent of the newcomers in the market for his Newbury debut in a valuable bumper back in March, but didn't make so much appeal on looks and went with little encouragement.

Form: 0-

Verney Fox¹⁹³

Age: 4| Weight: 11-1| J: Freddie Keighley⁽⁵⁾| T: P F Nicholls

11/8

Crystal Ocean gelding. Half-brother to 3 winners, including smart 2m hurdler/very smart chaser up to 3m Firefox and smart staying hurdler The Bosses Oscar. €145,000 purchase after finishing runner-up sole outing in Irish points (Apr 19) and makes obvious appeal on Rules debut.

Form: 2-

Non-Runners

De Inovator¹

Weight: 11-1| Age: 4

T: O Murphy J: Lewis Saunders

Forecasts

Verney Fox (11/8), Goodbye Earl (13/8), De Inovator (7/2), Mistral du Chenet (11/2), Clondaw Sergeant (11/1), Miravis (20/1), Memphis Bel (25/1)

VERNEY FOX takes the eye on pedigree and, having changed hands for €145,000 after finishing runner-up on his sole outing in Irish points, he makes obvious appeal and is taken to provide Paul Nicholls with a first bumper winner of the season. Goodbye Earl and De Inovator are 2 others to note.