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          Fri 19 Dec
        

Howden Novices' Limited Handicap Chase (GBB Race)

Ascot · Friday, 19 Dec · 13:50 · 2m 172y · Class 3 · TURF

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Status

13:50

Off time

Runners

Soft (Good to Soft in places)

Going

🎯 Tipster's 1·2·3

🏆 Top pick

STENCIL

#2 · 3.25

🥈 Second

EXCELERO (FR

🥉 Third

BLUEY (IRE

5 runners

01 · 🏆

Excelero

2.20

6/5

02 · 🥈

Stencil

3.25

9/4

03 · 🥉

Bluey

3/1

Vanderpoel

5/1

Southoftheborder

5/1

Pos	No.	Dr	Horse	Form	Jockey / Trainer	Age	Wgt	Best decimal odds
—	1	—	Bluey (M) Bumper winner who also landed 2 mares' novice hurdles last season. After 6 months off, got back on the up when making a successful chasing debut in novice handicap at Kempton in October, before runni…	7-14212	Rex Dingle Miss E C Lavelle	6	74.4kg	4 3/1
2nd	2	—	Stencil (G) H Useful winning French hurdler but failed to justify market support when well held in the Fred Winter. Not disgraced in face of a stiff task when fifth of 6 in Grade 2 there on chase bow last month an…	20-5210	H Cobden N George & A Zetterholm	4	74.4kg	3.25 9/4
4th	3	—	Excelero (G) FAV H Three-time hurdles winner who found improvement, on second start in this discipline, when taking 3-runner handicap chase at Warwick (16.2f, soft) a month ago, jumping soundly from the front. 7 lb ris…	16-4144	C Gethings Mrs J Williams	5	73.9kg	2.20 6/5
1st	4	—	Vanderpoel (G) Off mark in Irish points at second attempt and had little trouble landing first 2 starts in maiden/novice hurdles. Possible he overdid things when pulled up in Grade 2 in March and solid if unspectac…	1P-3211	Ben Jones B Pauling	6	73kg	6 5/1
3rd	5	—	Southoftheborder (G) Point/bumper/hurdles winner who had been handicapped out of things over fences initially but down in the weights and much more like it with a brace of runner-up efforts last month, latterly at Doncas…	233512-	Brendan Powell Miss H C Knight	7	69.9kg	6 5/1

Betting forecast: Excelero (6/5), Stencil (9/4), Bluey (3/1), Vanderpoel (5/1), Southoftheborder (5/1)