All will become clear on Cloudy Dream’s debut

Racing: Hopes high as Jefferson’s grey begins chasing career

It will be interesting to see how CLOUDY DREAM gets on when he makes his chasing debut at Carlisle.

Malcolm Jefferson’s grey did really well in a handful of starts over hurdles last year and even finished second in the Scottish Champion Hurdle at Ayr.

He always had the look of an embryonic chaser, though, and now gets to illustrate the point in Cumbria.

Assuming there is not too much more rain knocking around, Jefferson must surely have high hopes of achieving a positive outcome from the two-mile ApolloBet Daily Racing Refunds Beginners’ Chase.

Newton Abbot maestro MIDNIGHT SAPPHIRE should take a bit of beating in the Par Inn Support “Prostate Cancer UK” Handicap Hurdle.

Victor Dartnall’s six-year-old chestnut is a three-times course-and-distance scorer and looked as bright as ever when he struck by two-and-a-quarter lengths on October 7.

Connections are clearly keen to chance their arm once again before the ground gets too deep for the likeable mare, who should still be up to the task off a slightly elevated handicap mark. SELECTIONS:

CARLISLE: 2.10 Broad Spectrum, 2.45 Little Glenshee, 3.20 Up And Go, 3.55 Whats UpWoody, 4.30 Traditional Dancer, 5.00 Cloudy Dream, 5.30 Dubai Angel.

LUDLOW: 2.00 Inn The Bull, 2.30 Somerset Lias, 3.05 Authorized Too, 3.40 Dominada, 4.15 Lillian, 4.50 She’s Late, 5.20 Cottesloe.

NEWTON ABBOT: 2.20 Capeland, 2.55 Tikkapick, 3.30 Peter The Mayo Man, 4.05 Midnight Sapphire, 4.40 The Yank, 5.10 Moulin Rouge.

DOUBLE: Cloudy Dream and Midnight Sapphire