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I’m going to work on the assumption that Favour And Fortune is targeting the Scottish Champion Hurdle which it won last year so I’m letting it go here. I’m backing the next two because, although they are vulnerable to improvers, there is no guarantee that something will improve past them and those prices are huge. Serious Operator has a year’s absence to overcome but if a gamble develops I might jump aboard. I have backed Wade Out as a potential blot. I fancied it to be in the shake-up in the good Cheltenham novice race won by Sixmilebridge and the first three then are all in the 140s now. If Wade Out is around a 140 horse he’d be clear top on my figures and is a first-season novice with plenty of improvement possible. He returned to form last time in a very modest race for which he was the even-money favourite and he won by 19 lengths in a canter but the handicapper has taken a risk by assuming he only did what he was entitled to do and has left his mark alone. Kopeck De Mee remains the media talking horse – not his fault – but he’ll have to be as good as the literal conversion of his French rating should be to win. I wouldn’t be surprised if Punchestown or even the Greatwood-Schweppes route is being mapped out for him. Lastly, maybe some sweetie money on Minella Missile at huge odds is in order. He deserves to be that price on his current form but you never know with this trainer.

<blockquote data-quote="Desert Orchid" data-source="post: 2697785" data-attributes="member: 65242">2.20[ATTACH=full]24074[/ATTACH]I’m going to work on the assumption that Favour And Fortune is targeting the Scottish Champion Hurdle which it won last year so I’m letting it go here. I’m backing the next two because, although they are vulnerable to improvers, there is no guarantee that something will improve past them and those prices are huge. Serious Operator has a year’s absence to overcome but if a gamble develops I might jump aboard. I have backed Wade Out as a potential blot. I fancied it to be in the shake-up in the good Cheltenham novice race won by Sixmilebridge and the first three then are all in the 140s now. If Wade Out is around a 140 horse he’d be clear top on my figures and is a first-season novice with plenty of improvement possible. He returned to form last time in a very modest race for which he was the even-money favourite and he won by 19 lengths in a canter but the handicapper has taken a risk by assuming he only did what he was entitled to do and has left his mark alone. Kopeck De Mee remains the media talking horse – not his fault – but he’ll have to be as good as the literal conversion of his French rating should be to win. I wouldn’t be surprised if Punchestown or even the Greatwood-Schweppes route is being mapped out for him. Lastly, maybe some sweetie money on Minella Missile at huge odds is in order. He deserves to be that price on his current form but you never know with this trainer.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Desert Orchid, post: 2697785, member: 65242"] 2.20 [ATTACH type="full" size="1920x1080"]24074[/ATTACH] I’m going to work on the assumption that Favour And Fortune is targeting the Scottish Champion Hurdle which it won last year so I’m letting it go here. I’m backing the next two because, although they are vulnerable to improvers, there is no guarantee that something will improve past them and those prices are huge. Serious Operator has a year’s absence to overcome but if a gamble develops I might jump aboard. I have backed Wade Out as a potential blot. I fancied it to be in the shake-up in the good Cheltenham novice race won by Sixmilebridge and the first three then are all in the 140s now. If Wade Out is around a 140 horse he’d be clear top on my figures and is a first-season novice with plenty of improvement possible. He returned to form last time in a very modest race for which he was the even-money favourite and he won by 19 lengths in a canter but the handicapper has taken a risk by assuming he only did what he was entitled to do and has left his mark alone. Kopeck De Mee remains the media talking horse – not his fault – but he’ll have to be as good as the literal conversion of his French rating should be to win. I wouldn’t be surprised if Punchestown or even the Greatwood-Schweppes route is being mapped out for him. Lastly, maybe some sweetie money on Minella Missile at huge odds is in order. He deserves to be that price on his current form but you never know with this trainer. [/QUOTE]

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