Sunderland Echo

Make My Day could triumph at Plumpton

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Make My Day can do just that for his connection­s and supporters in the Tie The Knot Wedding Catering Novices' Hurdle at Plumpton.

Gary Moore takes his Flat recruit on a short trip to one of the yard's happiest hunting grounds, and Make My Day is sure to attract attention in the colours made famous by Goshen.

That may also be reflected in cramped odds, but Make My Day appears to have much to recommend him on the basis of his brief Flat career as he turns his attention to jumping.

Unlike Goshen last season, he will be making his stable as well as hurdles debut - having arrived from the care of Ralph Beckett with a Flat rating of 94 after three victories from six starts in a career which began with John Gosden.

Moore won three races on the Flat with Goshen before sending him to Fontwell for a successful start to a jumps campaign which culminated in what would surely have been a wide-margin victory in the Triumph Hurdle but for his high-profile mishap at the last flight.

Make My Day, a son of Galileo, already appears more of a stayer who will be at home over this trip of an extended two-and-a-half miles.

He ought also to have a little bit too much speed for a clutch of admittedly promising point-to-point winners here - and the stone he receives from the doubly-penalised Here Comes Johny should tell as well.

Moore deploys another very notable jumps debutant in the following race, the Sky Sports Racing Maiden Hurdle

Natural History was owned by the Queen, trained by Andrew Balding and ridden by Oisin Murphy when he accounted for Goshen at Goodwood in October, as a return to the Flat failed to work out last autumn for Moore's Champion Hurdle hopeful.

Natural History was then beaten under two lengths in the Group Three St Simon Stakes on heavy ground at Newbury before moving on for a six-figure sum, with a Flat rating of 101.

The six-year-old has all the credential­s to take high rank among this season's novice hurdlers, and has a fine chance to get off the mark at the first attempt.

Moore may well be in business too at Leicester, thanks to T we nty T we nty i n th e opening Pertemps Network Novices' Handicap Chase.

The top weight is penalis ed for last week' s shock Plumpton victory on his chasing debut.

The merit of that narrow

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