DJELO (2.25) looks a tasty bet to win the BetMGM Haldon Gold Cup at Exeter today.
The six-year-old won his first three races over fences in the style of one of a potentially exciting two-miler.
His momentum was checked in the new year when he was wiped out at the first fence of the Lightning Novices’ Chase won by one of today’s rivals JPR One.
But he produced a season’s best at the to finish third in the Turners Novices’ Chase.
Trainer Venetia Williams’s season is only just getting going but a victory in a valuable prize at Ascot last weekend was evidence her team are in a good place.
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Paul Nicholls has won three of the last four runnings of the 3m novices’ chase and only two horses oppose today’s representative CAPTAIN TEAGUE (1.50), who is likely to go off an odds-on favourite.
The winner of the Persian War and Challow over hurdles last season, ran way below form at the Festival, but starts the new season as one of his stable’s most exciting young chase prospects.
But for an error and stumble at the last, BRENDAS ASKING (3.00) would have won more comfortably at Ludlow last month. She can win again while Harry Skelton can extend his lead at the top of the jump jockeys championship on COCO MADEMOISELLE (3.35).
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