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Friday 7 March 2025

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CRS Building Supplies Handicap Hurdle

Off time: 15:10 | Winning time: 4m 7.5s

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Selected odds by:

Manuelito³¹

Age: 5| Weight: 11-9| J: M G Nolan| T: P Hobbs & J White| OR: 119

10/1

A fairly useful 2m winner over hurdles for David Pipe. Shaped as if better for the run after 7 months off when seventh of 14 in 2m Taunton handicap for new yard 31 days ago.

Form: 321-1P7

Cornish Storm¹⁷

Age: 6| Weight: 11-7| J: David Noonan| T: W S Kittow| OR: 117

22/1

Fair Flat winner who, fit from a placed effort on AW in January, made it fourth time luck over hurdles in 2m Taunton maiden 17 days ago. Should be competitive from this opening mark.

Form: P22-1

Imaginarium²⁹

Age: 6| Weight: 11-6| J: S Bowen| T: O Murphy| OR: 116

3/1

This useful Irish Flat performer made it 2-4 over hurdles when seeing off 7 rivals in 2m Huntingdon novice handicap 4 weeks ago. Respected up 6 lb.

Form: 1551

Thistle Be The One⁵⁸

Age: 6| Weight: 11-4| J: G Sheehan| T: Kieran Burke| OR: 114

9/2

Useful bumper winner and runner-up in a pair of Taunton novices (2m/19f) since switching to hurdles. Moves into handicap company for the first time now.

Form: 312-522

King Of The Lake^t⁷

Age: 7| Weight: 11-3| J: Chad Bament⁽⁷⁾| T: J Scott| OR: 113

9/5

On a hat-trick after easy wins in conditional jockeys' handicaps at Wincanton (21f) and Newbury (20.5f) under Chad Bament in recent weeks. Escapes a penalty and will be hard to beat if as effective back over shorter.

Form: 7-87711

Mostly Sunny¹³

Age: 6| Weight: 11-3| J: Harry Skelton| T: D Skelton| OR: 113

22/1

A 3-time winner on the Flat who struck twice over hurdles for Dan Skelton at the start of the season. Didn't offer much obvious promise in 2 soft-ground handicaps back from a break last month but the return to a sounder surface may help him.

Form: 249205

Teorie^p,t1⁴³

Age: 5| Weight: 11-2| J: Robbie David⁽⁷⁾| T: Daisy Hitchins| OR: 112

22/1

Fairly useful Flat/hurdles winner but folded tamely and pulled up in Huntingdon handicap back from wind surgery in January (final start for Alan King). New stable quick to add a tongue tie to his regular cheekpieces.

Form: 14103-P

Valadon⁵⁸

Age: 5| Weight: 11-2| J: Bryan Carver| T: H Fry| OR: 112| CD

7/1

Dual winner in juvenile hurdles last winter. Didn't take to chasing on reappearance but fared better back hurdling when third of 6 in 19f Taunton handicap in January.

Form: 2113-43

Non-Runners

Paso Doble⁴⁸

Weight: 11-9| Age: 8

T: P F Nicholls J: H Cobden

Lass De La Blairie²²

Weight: 11-6| Age: 5

T: C Boultbee-Brooks J: R Patrick

Forecasts

King Of The Lake (9/5), Imaginarium (3/1), Thistle Be The One (9/2), Valadon (7/1), Lass De La Blairie (8/1), Manuelito (10/1), Paso Doble (12/1), Cornish Storm (22/1), Teorie (22/1), Mostly Sunny (22/1)

If KING OF THE LAKE can cope with the drop back in trip he should prove hard to beat off the same mark as when scoring by 10 lengths at Newbury last Friday. Imaginarium made a successful start to his handicap hurdle career at Huntingdon last month and is second choice ahead of Paso Doble.