15:20 Bangor-on-Dee

Wednesday 30 September 2020

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Betsafe Leading Over The Last Free Bet Maiden Hurdle (GBB Race) (Div 2)

Off time: 15:23 | Winning time: 4m 15.35s

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Across The Line²¹⁷

Age: 5| Weight: 11-0| J: Harry Skelton| T: D Skelton| BF

9/1

€100,000 purchase who was strong in the betting ahead of finishing third in Market Rasen (16.6f) bumper on debut in February. Improvement may be forthcoming now switched to hurdles.

Form: 3-

Chazza²⁹

Age: 6| Weight: 11-0| J: C Gethings| T: K Bailey & M Nicholls| CD

9/2

Winning pointer/course bumper winner. Ran to only a modest level on Hereford hurdle bow but looked to have got into a fair rhythm out in front before falling 3 out at Newton Abbot. Can still improve.

Form: F41/12-F

Chuvelo²⁵⁷

Age: 5| Weight: 11-0| J: B S Hughes| T: D McCain Jnr| CD

5/6

Fairly useful dual bumper winner who is an interesting hurdling debutant for leading course trainer.

Form: 2/112-

Geomatrician³⁵⁶

Age: 4| Weight: 11-0| J: Fergus Gregory⁽³⁾| T: O Murphy

50/1

Fair maiden on Flat, stays 1¼m, respectable effort last time. No easy task on hurdle debut but is in the right hands to make it in this sphere.

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Go On Chez

Age: 4| Weight: 11-0| J: Ross Turner⁽⁵⁾| T: O Greenall & J Guerriero

125/1

£1,000 3-y-o, Malinas gelding. Dam, bumper winner, out of half-sister to outstanding 2m chaser Azertyuiop and very smart French staying chaser Bipbap.

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Kaproyale

Age: 5| Weight: 11-0| J: Adrian Heskin| T: O Murphy

16/1

€45,000 3-y-o, Kapgarde gelding. Closely related to fairly useful hurdler/useful chaser Delegate. Dam, 7f winner in France. Interesting newcomer from a top yard.

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Maninsane⁴²

Age: 5| Weight: 11-0| J: Paul O'Brien⁽³⁾| T: C E Longsdon

12/1

Seemed to relish the testing conditions when making his second bumper outing a winning one at Stratford last month. This will be a different test but he should have a future in this sphere.

Form: F-41

Minella Tara²²¹

Age: 5| Weight: 11-0| J: P J Brennan| T: F O'Brien

5/1

£90,000 point recruit who swept through to land a Lingfield bumper in December. Disappointing at Kempton 11 weeks later but is bred to take to obstacles and represents an in-form stable.

Form: F10-

Straw Fan Jack²⁹³

Age: 5| Weight: 11-0| J: Sean Houlihan⁽³⁾| T: Sheila Lewis

33/1

Shaped with a fair degree of promise when fourth of 12 in 2m novice hurdle at Hereford in November. Better than being pulled up suggests at Warwick next time but is possibly once for handicaps.

Form: 204P-

Non-Runners

Dragon Sun¹¹⁶

Weight: 11-0| Age: 4

T: J & A O'Neill J: Jonjo O'Neill Jr.

Forecasts

Chuvelo (5/6), Chazza (9/2), Minella Tara (5/1), Dragon Sun (6/1), Across The Line (9/1), Maninsane (12/1), Kaproyale (16/1), Straw Fan Jack (33/1), Geomatrician (50/1), Go On Chez (125/1)

Course bumper winner CHAZZA looked to have got into a fair rhythm out in front prior to his fall 3 out at Newton Abbot, so he's given another chance to improve at a track that suits prominent racers. Across The Line failed to meet expectations in a Market Rasen bumper but could easily improve now tackling obstacles, with Chuvelo another interesting hurdling debutant having struck twice in bumpers.