MANOTHEPEOPLE can grab victory in Coral Scottish Grand National Handicap Chase (Premier Handicap) (GBB Race) (3.35pm) at Ayr on Saturday afternoon.
Following the Scottish-trained winner Corach Rambler in last week’s Randox Grand National at Aintree Racecourse an English-based, Irish-born trainer Fergal O’Brien can land the Scottish version at Ayr.
With Dusart topping the weights a number of the field are running from out of the handicap. Manothepeople is not one of them and he is surely better than his current mark and gets in the race off a featherweight of 10st4lb. Having had just three chase starts, he is clearly open to more improvement and this step in trip looks ideal to bring out that. He was second to Bridge North at Newbury last time and he looks sure to stay this four-mile trip having won over three-miles-plus over hurdles and also scoring over 3m2f on his chase debut at Chepstow in October. The eight-year-old is yet to run in this type of big-field handicap, but if he takes to the unique challenge, he looks sure to add to his two victories over fences ahead of some more experienced rivals.
