Dan Skelton previews Tuesday’s 12 runners
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Leading trainer and Ladbrokes ambassador Dan Skelton previews a busy day for his stable when they will have 12 runners across the country.
Lac De Constance comes here and it is a race I always wanted to come to. The ground is on the slow side which he needs.
It is obviously a step up in grade. He has to take on a different bunch of horses with plenty of experience and it isn’t going to be easy but he is a good horse and I am really looking forward to running him.
She brings really good form into this race and I hope she will be one of the principles. I would like to think she is our best chance of the day.
Nube Negra takes on Edwardstone, who we have never taken on before.
Edwardstone looked very good at Sandown it has to be said. We are in good form ourselves and we have won around this track.
No surprises here.
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In fact we beat Altior around here and were the first horse to do so at two miles so we aren’t short of track form.
He has won around this track before and three miles is a good trip for him here. I would like to think he will run very well.
Faivoir and L’Eau Du Sud contest here.
L’Eau Du Sud looks like he is in a better place, dropping back a couple of furlongs to two miles on soft ground. I have put a tongue strap on because that is what he ran in in France.
I don’t think it’s necessary on any audible evidence but we have just stuck it back on.
Faivoir is coming back from a small injury and he doesn’t look the best handicapped to be honest.
It is a very competitive looking race. He is in a first-time handicap so that will give him more of a chance than novice hurdles.
Yeoman Warder hasn’t looked good enough in novice hurdles and I would imagine he will be a horse that can win a couple of staying handicap chases down the line.
This is a race he won last year and a race we had in in mind all season.
I wouldn’t have minded getting a run into him before this but the ground has been too good and the races haven’t suited.
He has been on the grass gallop a couple of times and looks absolutely brilliant and I am very happy with him.
Home Free goes nicely at home. He is a big, staying, chasing type of horse.
It wouldn’t be one I’d be jumping up and down about and saying he has to win a bumper but he does go nicely at home.
He hasn’t got the current form at the moment and I don’t know why.
Last year he thrived in the autumn but for now it’s just not quite there and we have to bear with him. Obviously because he was so good the handicapper has got him quite strong.
Medyaf runs in the Finale.
This is obviously a very good juvenile hurdle but I would have to give him a little each-way chance because he is tough and experienced.
I think the track will very much suit him. There will be shorter-priced horses but it wouldn’t surprise me if he ran into a place. He is in good form.
West to the Bridge runs in a three-mile handicap hurdle here and he has won at the track.
He is coming back to a more realistic mark but the form isn’t currently there and I don’t come here thinking he will definitely win.
However, he does go well at the track and the ground is starting to soften for him to consider.
Dan
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