Racecards
14:30 Stratford
Racecourse Video Services Novices' Hurdle (Class E)
- 12 Runners
- Distance: 2m 6f 110y
- Going: None specified
Ingenu (FR)
48- Form 6-01440
- Age 7
- Weight 11-6
led 1st, headed after next, ridden 9th, weakened after next
- Form 645
- Age 5
- Weight 11-0
- Trainer Jean-Rene Auvray
- Jockey Dave Crosse
prominent, mistake 5th, weakening when mistake 9th, soon beaten
- Form 0-P4F52
- Age 6
- Weight 11-0
- Trainer Ian Williams
- Jockey D R Dennis
always prominent headway 3 out, led approaching next, kept on well
Olitheaga
48- Form 12-P
- Age 8
- Weight 11-0
- Trainer C J Mann
- Jockey N D Fehily
held up towards rear,some headyway approaching 6th, soon weakened
Ollie Magern
87- Form 000
- Age 5
- Weight 11-0
- Trainer N & W Twiston-Davies
- Jockey C Llewellyn
led after 2nd, mistake 3 out, ridden and headed approaching 2 out, one pace flat
- Form 006P6
- Age 7
- Weight 11-0
- Trainer Miss C Caroe
- Jockey Xavier Aizpuru
raced keen, headway 7th, ridden and disputing 4th when mistake and unseated rider 3 out
- Form UFF6P0
- Age 8
- Weight 11-0
in touch to 5th, ridden and weakened 3 out
- Age 5
- Weight 10-9
- Trainer R Dickin
- Jockey B Hitchcott
held up towards rear, headway approaching 8th, ridden after 3 out, not trouble first two
- Form 5F50
- Age 4
- Weight 10-1
- Trainer R Baker
- Jockey Gary Richards
in touch, not fluent 5th, lost place 8th, behind from next
In depth
Verdict
Most of these would be more at home in selling company. Lodestar, who has shown a little ability over fences, looks to have been found the ideal opening to lose his maiden tag over timber. Sent chasing after just one run in a bumper, the six-year-old has yet to jump hurdles in public, but this is a weak contest and he should prove too strong for his rivals. Igenu, the winner of a novice event at Haydock, may find this ground on the fast side for him, while Olitheaga, the winner of a bumper on fast ground at Huntingdon nearly a year ago, has plenty to prove after a dismal effort at Hereford back in February. Of the others Ollie Magern and Soaring Monarch, both from powerful yards, have plenty too prove.