14:30
Matchbook Loves Racing Handicap Steeple Chase (GBB Race)
Class 3, 3m (3m0f10y), Hurdle, 4yo+, Rated 0-135, £8,265, 5 runners
- Going
- GOOD
- Surface
- Turf
Tip for this race
All today's tips ›Minniemum No. 5
David Bass · Henry Daly
✓ Distance winner ✓ Trainer in form (2/10, 14 days) ✓ Back from a 198-day break
Minniemum is our selection in this five-runner staying contest at Uttoxeter, and her progressive profile marks her out as the one to side with over the top-rated runner. She is only a pound behind King's Threshold on our figures, so there is next to nothing between them, and we prefer the horse on an upward curve. King's Threshold is the chief danger, while Molto Bene and Go To War, level on 124, are close enough to take advantage if Minniemum fails to build on her progress. Over this marathon trip on good ground, Minniemum looks the likeliest to improve past her rivals, so she gets the vote.
Runners
Charlie Todd
Emma Lavelle 1/16
King's Threshold is the top-rated runner on our figures, having won three starts back and finished fourth last time out, and he has run over today's trip and going before. The main risk is a 189-day absence, with 168 lb to carry.
- Sire
- Yeats (IRE)
- Dam
- Pearl Buttons (GB) by Alflora
- Owner
- Sailing To Byzantium
- Foaled
- 27 Apr 2017
- Stable
- Ogbourne Maizey, Wilts
- Trainer last 14 days
- 1 wins from 16 runs (6%)
- Trainer running to form
- 47%
- Ratings
- Perf 129
Lilly Pinchin
Charlie Longsdon 6/14
Molto Bene has finished second in each of her last four starts, a winner five starts back, and she has run over today's trip and going before. The risk is a 207-day absence, plus 160 lb on her back.
- Sire
- Jukebox Jury (IRE)
- Dam
- Molo (GB) by Kalanisi
- Owner
- Hot To Trot Jumping And Ffl Bloodstock
- Foaled
- 16 Mar 2019
- Stable
- Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire
- Trainer last 14 days
- 6 wins from 14 runs (43%)
- Trainer running to form
- 39%
- Ratings
- Perf 124
Paul O'Brien
Nicky Henderson 3/13
Go To War arrives on a creditable third last time out and has a win three starts back, while he has run over today's trip and going before and our rating of 124 puts him among the leading dangers. The main risk is a 197-day absence, with 155 lb to carry.
- Sire
- Soldier Of Fortune (IRE)
- Dam
- Rate Of Knots (IRE) by Saddlers' Hall
- Owner
- Grant Leon
- Foaled
- 29 Mar 2018
- Stable
- Upper Lambourn, Berks
- Trainer last 14 days
- 3 wins from 13 runs (23%)
- Trainer running to form
- 59%
- Ratings
- Perf 124
Aboutdamntime tp D
176 days
7yo, 10-12, OR 118 3P12-P
J: Jack Tudor · T: Oliver Greenall & Josh Guerriero
Jack Tudor
Oliver Greenall & Josh Guerriero 3/26
Pulled up last time and absent for 176 days, Aboutdamntime is hard to fancy, with two pulled-up efforts in his last five starts and a 152 lb burden to carry. In his favour, he won three starts back, was second the run after, and has run over today's trip and going.
- Sire
- Flemensfirth (USA)
- Dam
- Give It Time (GB) by Kayf Tara
- Owner
- Cardwellcoxoncurranmitten Dudgeons
- Foaled
- 28 Feb 2019
- Stable
- Oldcastle, Cheshire
- Trainer last 14 days
- 3 wins from 26 runs (12%)
- Trainer running to form
- 37%
- Ratings
- Perf 116
David Bass
Henry Daly 2/10
Minniemum comes here off a fifth last time out and a fourth two starts back, a clear improvement on the two pulled-up efforts before that, and she has run over today's trip and going. Her 198-day absence is the one concern, but our figures rate her a strong second of five.
- Sire
- Telescope (IRE)
- Dam
- Mighty Minnie (GB) by Sir Harry Lewis
- Owner
- Strachan Corbett Salwey Griffith Graham
- Foaled
- 7 May 2017
- Stable
- Ludlow, Shropshire
- Trainer last 14 days
- 2 wins from 10 runs (20%)
- Trainer running to form
- 40%
- Ratings
- Perf 128
Draw in brackets. Headgear: b blinkers, v visor, h hood, t tongue strap, p cheekpieces, e/s eye shield; ¹ first time. C course winner, D distance winner, CD course and distance winner. Form reads oldest to newest.