Yanworth can take chasing switch in stride

Alan King looks to have found fine starting point for distinguished hurdler

All eyes will be on YANWORTH as he starts out over fences in the 188Bet Best Mate Beginners’ Chase at Exeter.

The seven-year-old moves up to the bigger obstacles after a distinguished hurdles career, which yielded two Grade One victories as well as a handful of Grade Two verdicts.

Sent off favourite for the Champion Hurdle back in March, Yanworth never looked like taking a hand in the finish and was eventually disqualified after failing a post-race drugs test.

Yanworth righted the ship at Aintree in April when stepping up to an extended three miles to win the Liverpool Hurdle, although he only really did just enough to win.

While that economical style of victory is par for the course for Yanworth, his rating of 163 makes him a force to be reckoned with in any situation and he is head and shoulders above this sort of opposition.

Switching back to two miles and a furlong may not be totally up his street, but Yanworth is a class act and Alan King has found him an excellent starting point before moving on to bigger and better things. SELECTIONS EXETER: 2.20 Theatre Stage, 2.50 Lalor, 3.20 Bindon Mill, 3.50 Midnight Glory, 4.20 Market Road, 4.50 YANWORTH (NAP), 5.20 Volcano.

NEWCASTLE: 1.40 Palindrome, 2.10 Zabeel Star, 2.40 Big Kitten, 3.10 Sarookh, 3.40 Subhaan, 4.10 Nezar, 4.40 Indian Pursuit, 5.10 See The Sun.

DOUBLE: Nezar and Yanworth.