Saturday's Gallops Report comes from Lambourn and includes Ericht, Fourth Estate and Aigle D'Or.
Gallops report for Saturday December 10
Saturday's Gallops Report comes from Lambourn and includes Ericht, Fourth Estate and Aigle D'Or.
ERICHT has been pleasing Nicky Henderson since his solid comeback run at Cheltenham and looks likely to spearhead the Seven Barrows-based handler's team for Newbury next week.
Along with
FOURTH ESTATE, Ericht has an entry in the maiden hurdle and this dual bumper winner would go to post with plenty of confidence behind him.
Fourth Estate is himself a well-regarded novice who would be defending an unbeaten record.
Both horses strode out purposefully in their latest work on their trainer's side of the Faringdon Road.
BROADBACKBOB landed some good bets on his return at Ascot, and though possibly a shade fortunate to do so, will be another popular runner for the yard if contesting the two-and-a-half-mile novices' hurdle.
He has looked in good shape in subsequent workouts.
That remark also applies to
CAPTAIN CONAN, who is another novice hurdler due to run soon.
AIGLE D'OR was run out of it in a race that turned into a sprint at Newbury's Hennessy meeting.
He has come out of that well and could return to his local course for a similar race next week.
HEATHER ROYAL looked to be travelling smoothly enough when exiting at halfway at Lingfield last time, but the spill seems to have done nothing to impair her confidence.
She went nicely ahead of a possible run at Folkestone on Tuesday.
BALLYBOUGH GORTA is an unexposed point-to-point winner that breezed well ahead of the novices' hurdle at Hereford on Sunday.
The consistent
LARKS LAD could be out again next week in a novices' handicap chase.
