Benny’s Secret eyes hat-trick

● Musselburgh hope extra fixture passes inspection

Nick Alexander is looking forward to running hat-trick seeking Benny’s Secret at the additional fixture the BHA has triggered for Musselburgh today.

All concerned will be keeping their fingers crossed that the newly-conceived card passes an 8:30am precautionary inspection.

The seven-year-old Kinneston raider, the winner of his last two starts over 2m 5f at Kelso, faces ten rivals in the £10,000 Biggest Jumps Season On Racing UK Handicap Hurdle.

Alexander, who “has always thought a lot of Benny’s Secret”, added: “We feel he is still improving but going round

0 Lucy Alexander: Four rides. a fast right-handed track like this is a big unknown. It is also another step up in grade for him and, while I am hoping he will run very well, a stiffer test of stamina may be required to see him progress.”

Among those in opposition to Benny’s Secret are recent Musselburgh scorer Nathans Pride from the South Glamorgan yard of Tim Vaughan, Rosedobbin-trainedcatterick winner Romulus Du Donjon and Rachael Mcdonald-ridden Buckled trained by Sandy Thomson.

After the spate of cold weather abandonments, Alexander is making up for lost time with three other runners, Final Reminder, Moores Novelty and Dance Of Fire all ridden by daughter Lucy.

Jim Dreaper’s Mullaghmurphy Blue won over course and distance on Musselburgh’s opening jumps card of the autumn and he returns to the scene of that six-length triumph in the Racing UK Jump To It Novices’ Limited Handicap Chase.

Dreaper is the son of Tom Dreaper, the man who trained legendary steeplechaser Arkle from the same Greenogue stables in Kilsallaghan, County Dublin.

Rose Dobbin, meanwhile, has enjoyed a really good first half of the season and Some Reign has the potential to be competing in some big races towards the end of the cam- paign. He landed a proper touch on his debut in a bumper at Wetherby last year and ended up running at Aintree.

Beaten first time out over timber at Kelso by the smart Beyond The Clouds, he made no mistake on his return there.

Stepping up in trip should see even more improvement in the EBF “National Hunt” Novices’ Hurdle.