NEWSBOY’S 1-2-3 1 KILFILUM CROSS 2 THE YOUNG MASTER 3 SQUOUATEUR

KILFILUM CROSS made a winning handicap chase – and stable – debut last time out and is the suggestion in a trappy finale.

Following a move to Worcestershire trainer Henry Oliver, the grey was sent off a well-backed 6-4 favourite for a three-mile handicap chase for amateur riders.

The market support wasn’t hard to fathom – a handicap mark of 132 looked within range, and Oliver had secured the services of the highest achiever among the unpaid ranks, Derek O’Connor.

The gamble was landed by a neck from the in-form Uhlan Bute,

and Kilfilum Cross, on whom Alex Edwards is a capable substitute for O’Connor, has the upwardly mobile profile to defy a 7lb rise. Measure of my dreams

is prominent in the betting The Young for good reason, Master

is better than he showed in the Ladbrokes Trophy at Newbury in Squouateur November and has it in him to run well if Ben Haslam can rekindle his old flame