No Drama with this winner
Rivals swamped By L’Eau du Sud
Report
We start at Cheltenham on Friday in the 2m grade 2 chase where L’Eau Du Sud (Neil) went to post Raced in third, led 8th, joined 4 out, led again 3 out, 6 lengths ahead when left clear last, winning easily ,by 15 l. He gets 48.68 points
In the 2m 5f grade 2 novice hurdle No Drama This End (Neil), took his chance, Travelled strongly, in touch with leaders, went second 2 out, headway on turn before last, led last, nudged along and went clear run-in winning impressively by 3l. He gets 52 points,
At Navan On Sunday in the 2m 4f Beginners Chase Final Demand ( Cod, Martin, Neil, Peej), went to post, Disputed lead, raced in second before 3rd, led before 5th, joined 3 out, shaken up approaching last, soon clear, went further clear run-in, winning impressively by 13l. He gets 11.29 points.
At Exeter on Monday in the 2m 1f Beginners Chase Lulamba ( Bob, Cliff, Neil, Steve) went to post, Prominent, led 4 out, soon clear, winning easily by 10l.He gets 11.4 points.
The John Torpey Memorial Trophy
November Total
Neil 123.37 123.37
Cod 11.29 11.29
Bob 11.4 11.4
Steve 11.4 11.4
Cliff 11.4 11.4
Martin 11.29 11.29
Peej 11.29 11.29
Stats Per String
Runs Wins
Martin 2 1
Steve 2 1
Bob 3 1
Cliff 1 1
Neil 6 4
Peej 2 1
Cod 3 1
The Weeks Losers
Jonbon, Be Aware, Juracon, Queenofthejukebox, Iberico Lord, A Path to Ronda, Dinoblue
Weekend Runners
Friday
Ascot
12.15 Regents Stroll
Saturday
Haydock
12.08 Masked Man
1.50 Gidleigh Park, Jango Baie, The Jukeboxman
3.00 Grey Dawning, Haiti Coloeurs , Handstands
Ascot
1.30 Il Est Francais, Jango Baie, Pic D’Orhy, Gidleigh Park, The Jukeboxman,
2.40 Wodhooh, Kateria, Celtic Dino,
3.15 Gidleigh Park, Calico
Punchestown
2.10 Anzadam, Irancy, Lossiemouth, Salvator Mundi, William Munny
Sunday
Punchestown
1.17 Wodhooh
3.00 Fact To File, Gaelic Warrior, Fast Or Slow, Galopin Des Champs, Inothewayourthinkin, Lecky Watson, I Am Maximus, Jordan’s
News
Rebecca Curtis is going for the Betfair Chase with Haiti Couleurs and expects Britain's newest – and hottest – Cheltenham Cup hope to be "bang on ready" for Saturday. She is committed to Haydock with the improving chaser, rather than waiting for the Coral Gold Cup at Newbury seven days later.
Nicky Henderson has every ounce of confidence that Constitution Hill is on the road to returning to his best after he sailed through his final racecourse gallop before his comeback run in Newcastle’s BetMGM Fighting Fifth on Saturday week. After the workout Constitution Hill retained his position as the 6-4 second favourite with William Hill for the Fighting Fifth on November 29, with the market headed by even money shot The New Lion, winner of the Turners Novices' Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival last season.
On the prospect of meeting the Dan Skelton-trained six-year-old, Henderson said: "It’ll be tough. Dan’s horse is very good, and we know they’re all very fit horses right now. It’ll definitely test him in every single way, and there will be improvement, which will hopefully get him into Christmas. It wouldn’t be disappointing if he did finish second to The New Lion."
Ben Pauling believes Saturday's Betfair Chase offers last term's exciting novice Handstands his best chance of winning a Grade 1 this season. The Tim Radford-owned six-year-old, who won last season's Scilly Isles Novices' Chase, faces the biggest test of his career at Haydock, but Pauling is confident his first runner in the Betfair Chase can prove up to the task.
"I expect him to run very well," said Pauling. "I have more faith in this horse than you could ever imagine. The two times he's gone to festivals [Cheltenham and Aintree] he hasn't performed, but he's been wrong both times. I just think he's got a huge engine and we'll look back at that Scilly Isles like it was a very good race. He's in really good form and I couldn't be happier with him. This is his best chance of a Grade 1 this season and we'll try to take it."
Dan Skelton is looking to continue his rampant form in the first British Grade 1 of the season with favourite Grey Dawning primed for Saturday's Betfair Chase (3.30), a race in which the trainer says last year's runner-up has "unfinished business". After a successful November meeting at Cheltenham when Skelton won the Paddy Power Gold Cup with Panic Attack and Shloer Chase with L'Eau Du Sud, as well as two other races across the three days, Skelton believes Grey Dawning is ready to fire on his comeback in Haydock's biggest jumps race.
Skelton, the early British trainers' championship leader, is seeing all the right signs in his big-race contender and hopes for less testing conditions this time. "I'm really happy," Skelton said. "The forecast looks a bit in and out for the week, which is fine, we just don't want it like it was at the 11th hour last year. "We've got him really prepared for it. We've had an away day when he went with Panic Attack, and I couldn't have asked to have prepared better. I don't really have a negative about not having had a run with him. It certainly wasn't fitness that got him beat last year and he's every bit as fit now. He's at the peak of his life, in terms of age, so hopefully it's all enough."
Leading Champion Hurdle hope Anzadam has not been declared for the Unibet Morgiana Hurdle (2.10) at Punchestown on Saturday despite trading at a shade of odds-on before declaration stage on Thursday, with Lossiemouth heading a field of four. Trainer Willie Mullins had previously indicated that Anzadam would begin his campaign in the race, while Lossiemouth would attempt to defend her Hatton's Grace crown a week later. Lossiemouth will face just three rivals and heads the market with Paddy Power at odds of 4-9, while her closest market rival is stablemate Irancy, at 11-4
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