To ensure I have time to cover the new entrants, I start to lay down the spine of the handbook with some big names early. I thought I would give Jonbon another entry as this may be his last season, but shock, horror, Ashers has dropped him!! However, he goes in the One’s that didn’t make it section, and retains his spot on the cover, as he has been a great horse, and I had forgotten that Constitution Hill trounced him in the Supreme Novice Hurdle.
We try something new with addition of all races in France with a view to bringing at more variety to things, we will see how it goes there are a few French picks.
At present it looks like a tricky season ahead unless we get some steady days of rain, with even the top tracks struggling to get good to soft ground. No doubt in a few weeks we will see waterlogging but we will see. Trainer wise the Skeltons have been cleaning up early doors but I don’t see many stand out grade 1 winners. Ben Pauling continues to move up and has a few in the strings this time.
We have 105 different horses, the most popular is surprisingly the novice chaser Johnny’s Jury from the Jamie Snowden stable with 5 and perhaps a sign of an average bunch of older horses the Gold Cup winner is a single pick, The Champion Chase and Champion hurdle winners only have 2 and the RyanAir winner one.
We tip our hats to Neil who has managed to pick an entire squad of Greys!
85 are single picks, 31 are covered below so good luck to all
The Editor
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