The weekends between the Cheltenham festival and Aintree’s Grand National meeting will never be an obvious target for the elite jumping horses but the £550,000 Go North weekend, which is now in its fifth year, offers decent money for horses just below the top rung and the £100,000 Ladbrokes Herring Queen Series Final at Kelso on Saturday is a race in which a case can be made for all 12 runners.
Surrey Belle’s 57-length win at Newcastle last time will probably be enough to send her off favourite, but that was a four-runner race where her main market rival was way below form.
