DANCEWITHTHEWIND can blow them away in the Subscribe To Racing TV Now Handicap Hurdle (3.35) at Kelso on Friday.
The son of Jeremy landed a handicap hurdle over the course and distance in October 2020 and followed up in a similar event at Newcastle – before injury intervened.
The Harriet Graham and Gary Rutherford trainee was on the sidelines for 729 days, so it was not surprising the eight-year-old needed his return to action at Wetherby last November.
But Dancewiththewind took a step forward with a third at Kelso at the start of December and was back in the winner’s enclosure with a 25-1 success at Wetherby on Boxing Day.
Ridden as today by Edward Austin, my led for flights from home and had a length and a half to spare over Brentford Hope.
A 3lb rise in the weights looks within range for a horse having his ninth outing over obstacles, and drying terrain in the Scottish Borders is of no concern for a horse who operates on decent ground.
At Lingfield, MISS MOONSHINE, who came from the clouds for a course-and-distance score two weeks ago, looks ripe for a hat-trick – she had earlier come home in front at Kempton – in the It’s Time To Turn To talkSPORT Handicap (3.50).
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