Bank on The Box at Sedgefield

WHO’S IN THE BOX is in position to score in the Paxtons Record Market Share For Case IH Handicap Chase at Sedgefield. Nick Kent’s consistent seven-year-old has not been out of the first two in four attempts since being sent chasing this season.

Who’s In The Box, an Irish point-topoint winner two years ago, largely performed with credit when hooded during his first British campaign over hurdles - and then outran big odds on his chasing debut when he returned at Southwell and was beaten just three-quarters of a length in November.

He broke his duck over fences with a very game effort to win the Lincolnshire National at Market Rasen late last year, interrupting the runner-up’s sequence of victories.

Who’s In The Box had to settle for second again, back down in trip at Catterick last month, but ran well enough to suggest he can return to winning ways from just 2lb higher over this slightly longer distance on forecast better ground.

Mr Muldoon can make a second successful visit to the County Durham venue with victory in the Paxtons Great Deals For Genuine Kverneland Handicap Chase.

Bought out of Joseph O’Shea’s yard in 2019, the eight-year-old has proved an excellent recruit for shrewd trainer Dr Richard Newland.

Mr Muldoon won three of his five starts over hurdles last season - and defied a 10-month absence to make a winning debut over fences at Sedgefield in October.

Favourite backers had their fingers burnt when he could finish only fourth at Ascot the following month, but he was far from disgraced in being beaten six and a half lengths.

He has less on his plate this weekend and is expected to make the most of the opportunity.

At Huntingdon, Onemorefortheroad can sponsor the celebrations after the Thank You Fairfax Saddles Handicap Hurdle.

Neil King’s decent novice sat out the excesses of the mid-winter mud and renews his winning association with Bryony Frost after a break of more than three months.