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LAWNEY HILL has a fine chance of building on El Toreros’s recent upturn in form by taking the two-mile, three- furlong handicap hurdle at Stratford this afternoon.
Afterfightingalosingbattle with the handicapper for the last couple of years, the son of El Prado has been in the form of his life now that his ground conditions are prevailing.
A head second to Squeeze Me at Fakenham set up a fine front-runningvictoryatNewton Abbot last month in an amateur riders race and, with Conor Shoemark taking over, an 8lb rise seems feasible.
It’s not difficult to see why Jonjo O’Neill had dropped Calafintoaseller, afterthesixyear-old has been badly out of sorts in his last two outings in handicaps.
Perhaps he can be forgiven his penultimate race, which wasaverycompetitiveClass2 handicap but his latest flop in a Class 4 race is quite a bit more difficult to forgive.
He is a course- anddistance winner, in a novice’s handicap hurdle at 20/1 in April, and it may be that he was simply unable to cope with his revised rating.
Alan King’s horses are running well – with or without an obstacle in the way – and there are sound reasons to believe that Laser Blazer can continue the trend in the novice hurdle.
A winner off 70 on the flat 11 months ago, his third to Huff And Puff at Kempton in May over hurdles has worked outwellandheseemsideallysuited to summer jumping.