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can land this novices’ hurdle for the David Pipe-Tom Scudamore combination. The five-year-old was recruited from the Flat, where he won three times for Stuart Kittow, and appears to haver taken well to the hurdling game, showing improvement on each of this three runs. His last outing was in a 20-runner field at Newbury, where he finished runner-up to Rathhill. A reproduction of that effort should be good enough to see off his 11 rivals at the Welsh venue.
finished behind Rathhill at Newbury, occupying fifth place, and that should prove good enough. Richard Johnson takes the ride on the five-year-old, who was returning from a 67-day break before that
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Newbury run last month, and should strip fitter today. On the form book, Umndeni doesn’t have much to fear from the rest of the field, but those looking for a forecast with the likely favourite might wish to side with Alan King’s Brigade Of Guards, some way behind the selection at Newbury.
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is lightly-raced and was tackling two mile-plus for the first time when going under by a length to Stargazer at Newcastle last time. He kept on well that day to show that the trip holds no fears for him and Adam Kirby might be able to use his mount’s tactical speed to stamp his authority. finished three lengths behind Festival Of Ages that day and there seems no real reason why he should reverse the form on the same terms tonight.