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What Martin said, basically.  I'd also like to point to Eleazar's ability to defy sizeable lay-offs as another virtue of his - three times in his career he's gone in after absences as long as today's or longer. 

 

Barbers Shop has won twice on seasonal reappearance himself if one includes his March 2006 bumper debut (short-heading yesterday's Musselburgh winner Silverburn, no less!), but the last time he did that was when making desperately hard work of landing a Southwell intermediate hurdle in June 2007 after six months out. 

 

He's never successfully gone in after a longer break than that, although in mitigation some of those reappearances have necessarily been in races at or close to the highest level.

 

The only fear with Eleazar is whether he's on one of his bone-idle days and sets himself too much to do - you wouldn't want him to drop out of the back of the telly by halfway around somewhere as sharp as Fakenham. 

 

There's a school of thought that suggests he might have won the W&S Recycling at Stratford (the erstwhile Horse&Hound) last spring had he raced more purposefully from earlier in the race, and it's a view I'm not entirely unsympathetic towards.

 

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