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Posted by:
PNicholls
on Oct 25, 2011 at 11:56:15 AM
[u]14:10, 2m Novice Hurdle
[/u][b]Prospect Wells[/b]: My first runner for Andrea and Graham Wylie, and it is very exciting to have them in the yard. This horse mixed it in Group 1 company over middle distances in France after winning a 1m2f Group event at Saint Cloud, and made a winning Flat debut for Howard Johnson at Pontefract in June last year. Has evidently had plenty of problems since though, and reportedly they had problems getting him to jump last season. Wasn't easy to start with when he arrived here but has now jumped at least 200 obstacles. But you have to say that he isn't necessarily a natural and will definitely improve for the experience and we have to hope he takes to it on the course. Nevertheless, he clearly is a very smart horse - indeed I wouldn't have had many higher-rated...
Posted by:
PNicholls
on Dec 6, 2010 at 08:42:11 AM
We have had a lot of success with our novices in handicaps down the years - and that fact certainly doesn't seem to have been lost on the handicapper.
Because all I can say is that my three novice chasers - Rebel Du Maquis (official mark of 148), Watamu Bay (147) and Robinson Collonges (148) - appear to have been handicapped on what they may achieve in the future, and not what they have done.
And, surely, you have to give the novices a chance.
But it is the handicapper that has taken no chances with their ratings.
Take Rebel Du Maquis, for example.
He has been given a mark of 148, and I can tell you now that he won't be entered in a handicap off 148, as he may as well start now.
He won well at Cheltenham first time out and then won at odds-on at Taunton, and is clearly...