Rase Equine Novices' Hurdle

Off time: 13:50 | Winning time: 4m 15.7s

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I'll Be Your Clown³⁴

Age: 6| Weight: 11-5| J: Harry Skelton| T: D Skelton| OR: 120

1/7

Ex Irish Flat handicapper who won by a short head on debut for this yard at Stratford last month (2m good), and wasn't beaten too far when third to Hollywood Road at Huntingdon a couple of weeks later. Stable in decent form and should be on the premises under a penalty. 120 rated.

Form: 724/13-

Bricbracsmate^p⁴²

Age: 9| Weight: 10-12| J: Andrew Tinkler| T: M Mullineaux| OR: 100

7/1

Back from a lengthy break recently, and ran a career best race over C&D last month (good) when 8L runner up to Dreamcatching. Possibly flattered by that effort (one of the market principals fell) and needs to improve to trouble those towards the fore of the market.

Form: 5468/P2-

Greenworldsolution¹⁵⁹

Age: 5| Weight: 10-12| J: Sean Quinlan| T: J Candlish

16/1

Not made too striking an impression in bumpers or over hurdles so far, and off the track since December 2016. Both of his career starts over hurdles have come over further and drops back to 2m today.

Form: 76/96-

Rossington⁹

Age: 8| Weight: 10-12| J: Henry Brooke| T: J S Wainwright| OR: 71

25/1

23 race maiden (0 from 9 over hurdles), and beaten in a match by the 1/33f Mohaayed over C&D last week on his latest outing.

Form: 8/643P-2

Shulammite Man⁶⁷

Age: 4| Weight: 10-8| J: L P Aspell| T: Sally Haynes

14/1

Eight race maiden on the Flat, and has been in action on the AW over the winter months. Well beaten at Newcastle in March and makes his hurdles debut at a challenging enough level.

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Non-Runners

Bellamy⁵⁶

Weight: 10-12| Age: 6

T: N P Mulholland J: N D Fehily

Its Pandorama¹⁵

Weight: 10-12| Age: 7

T: B Ellison J: Henry Brooke

Forecasts

I'll Be Your Clown (1/7), Bellamy (1/1), Bricbracsmate (7/1), Its Pandorama (14/1), Shulammite Man (14/1), Greenworldsolution (16/1), Rossington (25/1)

With rain forecast, it'll pay to keep a close eye on the weather situation, but this opening Novices Hurdles appears to effectively be a match. I'll Be Your Clown was shrewdly purchased from Ireland by Dan Skelton and made an immediate impression when scoring at the first time of asking at Stratford. However, the form of BELLAMY from Wincanton appears slightly stronger (well beaten third has won since), and with little between the pair on official ratings, the Neil Mulholland trained gelding can make the most of the 7lb he receives from the penalised I'll Be Your Clown.