Plough Novices' Hurdle

Off time: 14:51 | Winning time: 5m 0.4s

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Selected odds by:

Chambard²⁹

Age: 7| Weight: 11-8| J: Charlie Deutsch| T: Miss V Williams| OR: 125

13/8

Off the mark at Exeter and improved on that under his penalty when runner up at Ludlow. Now tries further but trip may help and should go well despite his penalty.

Form: 2/9U212

Dominateur¹⁷

Age: 6| Weight: 11-8| J: G Sheehan| T: O Sherwood| OR: 125| D

8/13

Has shown steady improvement over hurdles and off the mark in good style at Lingfield last time. Penalty to carry now and that form is very similar to that of Chambard.

Form: 2-3231

Iwasthefutureonce⁵¹

Age: 6| Weight: 11-2| J: Mr William Easterby⁽⁵⁾| T: T D Easterby| OR: 113

16/1

Has shown minor ability so far over hurdles. Well held in first chase start last time and now reverts back to hurdles. Has a bit to find with the top two here.

Form: P-1944P

Westerly Wind⁹⁶

Age: 5| Weight: 11-2| J: Jonjo O'Neill Jr.⁽⁵⁾| T: J & A O'Neill

100/1

£41,000 purchase at sales in 2017, dam closely related to the high-class hurdler/chaser L'Ami Rouge. Shown very little in two starts so far and needs to improve on that considerably to be involved. Still early days.

Form: 40

Forecasts

Dominateur (8/13), Chambard (13/8), Iwasthefutureonce (16/1), Westerly Wind (100/1)

This should be a fairly tight little contest and slight preference is for CHAMBARD to get back to winning ways. He is very closley matched with Dominateur and there shouldn't be much between them here.