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Aintree next for improving Rose

Image: Pepite Rose: Aintree target

Venetia Williams' improving mare Pepite Rose could have her next start in a Grade One at the John Smith's Grand National meeting.

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Williams mare set for Aintree next

Venetia Williams' improving mare Pepite Rose could have her next start in a Grade One at the John Smith's Grand National meeting. The five-year-old has blossomed since going over fences and has won her last four. She never came off the bridle in winning the Listed mares' final at Newbury last weekend and will head to Liverpool in search of better ground. "She has been a revelation since turning to fences, making it four from four with a very easy win at Newbury in a course record," said her jockey Aidan Coleman in his Racing UK blog. "The original thought was to go for a Grade Two handicap at Cheltenham's April meeting, but the ground is likely to be too fast then, and we have more of a chance of the going being easier at Aintree in a couple of weeks. "If she does go that route she will be pitched in at Grade One level in either the novice chase over three miles and one furlong or the more likely option of the race over two and a half miles. "It will obviously be a far tougher examination for her taking on the geldings at that level, but at least we would know where we are with her, and she would certainly have earned her place in that company."

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