Nigel’s Bristol rover set to step on the gas

Champion Hurdle over two miles at Leopardstown the previous month.

That race has worked out very well, as the third, Mick Jazz, and the fifth, Melon, went on to finish third and second in the Champion Hurdle at Prestbury Park.

Supasundae was just touched off at this meeting last year over three miles, so we know he will handle the tight track.

What can you back against him? Veterans The New One and My Tent Or Yours have definitely seen better days, while in my opinion L’Ami Serge is as honest as disgraced Aussie cricket captain, Steve Smith.

Fair play to the amateur jockeys who are taking on the Grand National fences in the Randox Health Foxhunters Chase and as Jenny Pitman used to say, “I hope they all come back safe and sound.”

Jamie Codd is the best jockey riding in the race by a country mile, so give his mount GRAND VISION (4.05) a whirl as he ran well when sixth of 24 in the Cheltenham Foxhunter last month, when the 141-rated beast ran out of stamina over three-and-aquarter miles.

He will be seen in a better light over this shorter trip, and he is the highestrated animal in the field. There will be a furious early pace in the Red Rum Handicap Chase run over two miles, and that will help KING’S SOCKS (4.40) settle into a smooth early rhythm.

This ex-French cheval was beaten two-and-a-half lengths into second spot by the now 166-rated Footpad in a Grade One Hurdle at Auteuil in June 2016 when trained in his native land, so he looks very well treated racing off a perch of 140 in this event.

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Now under the wing of David Pipe, the soft-ground performer was fifth of 22 behind The Storyteller in a twoand-a-half mile handicap at the Cheltenham Festival off today’s mark, when he seemed to run out of gas up the Prestbury Park hill.

It seems a cute decision to bring him back in trip, and it was nice to see the yard have a welcome winner at Ludlow on Monday.

GETAWAY KATIE MAI (5.15) will be hard to beat in the Grade Two Goffs Nickel Coin Mares’ Bumper if she reproduces the form of her second to Relegate at Leopardstown in February.

That performance from John Queally’s runner got a massive boost when the winner went on to snare the 23-runner bumper at the Cheltenham Festival in March.

It is no surprise my tip is favourite at 5-2 and it is 13-2 bar.