Racecards
14:55 Fontwell Park
Channel 4 Time Team Novices' Chase (Class E) (Class E)
- 6 Runners
- Distance: 2m 4f
- Going: Good to Firm
- Form 1453-21
- Age 10
- Weight 11-7
- Trainer A W Carroll
- Jockey N D Fehily
jumped well, led 3rd, made rest, clear 3 out, comfortably
- Form P4P4P/6-
- Age 8
- Weight 11-0
- Trainer G Enright
- Jockey L P Aspell
led until 3rd, prominent, ridden after 12th, one pace from 3 out
- Form 4/PP-6U0
- Age 8
- Weight 11-0
- Trainer R Williams
- Jockey Mr D Mansell
chased leaders, hit 9th, pulled up before next
- Form 20U0-64
- Age 11
- Weight 11-0
- Trainer J Mullins
- Jockey Rachael Green
headway 11th, ridden to chase winner approaching 3 out, kept on but always held from next
Rodolfo
153- Form 063/216-
- Age 6
- Weight 11-0
- Trainer O Sherwood
- Jockey A P McCoy
held up behind leaders, headway to track winner after 10th, blundered and unseated rider next
One For Me
24- Form 11100-3
- Age 6
- Weight 10-9
- Trainer Jean-Rene Auvray
- Jockey Dave Crosse
held up in touch, ridden after 12th, no impression
In depth
Verdict
Up The Glen has a 7lb penalty to carry for his win in a handicap off a mark of 100 at Wetherby last time and may struggle to concede the weight to chasing debutante Rodolfo, who is marginally preferred to One For Me. The last mentioned was a progressive performer over hurdles last term winning handicaps at Fontwell, Exeter and Wincanton, victories that saw the mare go up 32lbs in the weights. Not surprisingly the six-year-old struggled after that leaving connections little option but to go chasing and the mare looked far from natural on her first start over the larger obstacles at Ludlow recently. The vote then goes to Oliver Sherwood's Rodolfo, who has looked a chaser in the making since scoring in a bumper on his racecourse debut. Unexposed over hurdles after just three starts over timber, it is interesting that the son of Tragic Role is being put over fences so soon and he gets the vote. The remainder look a pretty moderate bunch with the Seamus Mullins-trained Mutadarra probably the pick of them in a race that is taken to go to Rodolfo.