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1. JPR One (Friday, 2.20pm)
It’s possibly unusual for the winner of a Newton Abbot novices’ handicap chase to be a short-priced favourite for this race, but the manner of JPR ONE‘s jumping at the Devon track had to be seen to be believed as he ran out a comfortable winner.
This six-year-old won three of his seven starts over hurdles, and was second on another occasion, and actually ran in the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle won by superstar Constitution Hill in 2022, but always had the size and frame to make an even better chaser.
It’s early days after just that one outing at Newton Abbot, but the money we’ve seen would indicate that the Tizzards think the world of him and he’s an interesting prospect.
2. Captain Teague (Friday, 3.30pm)
CAPTAIN TEAGUE is odds on to make it two from two over timber and it’s not hard to see why. A winner of an Irish point-to-point, he comfortably justified odds-on favouritism at Plumpton on his British debut before finishing a fine third to A Dream To Share in the Champion bumper at the Cheltenham Festival.
That form has been well franked since and that left him as one of the most exciting British novice hurdling prospects for this season. He certainly didn’t let his supporters down when making his debut over timber in the Persian War Novices’ Hurdle at Chepstow last month, staying on well to score by close to 10 lengths.
He’s clearly right toward the top of Paul Nicholls’ novices to follow and expect his price for the Ballymore Novices’ Hurdle at Cheltenham to contract further if successful here.
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3.The Real Whacker & Stage Star (Saturday, 2.20pm)
This Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase hero has taken 20 per cent of ante-post stakes, as has STAGE STAR, but it’s THE REAL WHACKER that could prove our biggest loser.
So far our traders haven’t taken too drastic evasive action as he has to carry such a welterweight of 12st, so he’ll have to be an absolute superstar to defy that welter burden.
Patrick Neville’s stable star was decent enough over hurdles, but remains unbeaten over the bigger obstacles.
The form of his Brown Advisory success is blue chip after runner-up Gerri Colombe landed last Saturday’s Champion Chase at Down Royal and it’s possibly a mystery why this guy is 16-1 for the next year’s Cheltenham Gold Cup, while Gerri Colombe is 9-2 second favourite.
The Real Whacker will have to overcome Stage Star who has been at the front of the market since we first priced up the race months ago in what is a really strong looking renewal of the Paddy Power Gold Cup.
After that Festival victory Stage Star was last of five when favourite for the Grade 1 Manifesto Novices’ Chase at Aintree, but connections thought he ran ‘flat’ after his Festival exertions.
The volume of support we’ve seen for this chap would make you think he’d done extremely well over the summer and Nicholls knows exactly what it takes to land this contest with two previous successes.
4. Onlyamatteroftime (Sunday, 3.30pm)
Our racing boffins took the knife to his price on Tuesday at the five-day declaration stage. There were nibbles in the market, but he’s having his first start for multiple champion trainer Willie Mullins and there’s a lot to like about his past history.
He ran out on his last start at Cork so no-one will ever know if he would have won, but he was keeping on when approaching the last and lady luck deserted the favourite’s backers.
The Getaway gelding was third before that in a maiden hurdle at Roscommon before that which is unlikely form to take a Greatwood Hurdle, but his victory in a Punchestown bumper in June, when a neck behind at the post but being awarded the race due to interference, is highly interesting.
That ‘success’ was over two miles and this outing will be the first time that he returns to the minimum trip since.
*Odds quoted on the widget are Future Racing / Antepost prices which means that if your selection does not run in the race for whatever reason – you will lose your stake under traditional Antepost rules.
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