Heavy

3:45 totesport 0800 221 221 Handicap Chase (class 2) (5yo+,0-140)

[off 3:46] £12,526.00, £3,700.00, £1,850.00, £926.00, £462.00, £232.00 15 fences 1 omitted 2m4f

Comments In Running OR TS RPR

1 Be My Better Half (IRE) Jonjo O´Neill 11 10-9 N Fehily 11/1 122 — —

2 nk Better Days (IRE) Mrs S J Smith 10 10-10 R McGrath 20/1 123 — —

3 7 Claymore (IRE) O Sherwood 10 11-6 L Aspell 7/2F 133 — —

4 9 Backbeat (IRE) J Howard Johnson 9 11-12 A Dobbin 15/2 139 — —

5 1¾ Edmo Yewkay (IRE) T D Easterby 6 11-3 b R Garritty 11/2 130 — —

6 5 Tyneandthyneagain J Howard Johnson 11 11-10 A Dempsey 28/1 137 — —

7 14 Our Armageddon (NZ) R C Guest 9 11-4 L McGrath(3) 5/1 134 — —

8 11 Vandas Choice (IRE) Miss Lucinda V Russell 8 11-7 P Buchanan(3) 8/1 137 — —

9 dist Kelrev (FR) Miss Venetia Williams 8 11-8 S Thomas 8/1 135 — —

10 dist Lord Maizey (IRE) N A Twiston-Davies 9 11-3 Antony Evans 9/1 130 — —

PU Posh Stick J B Walton 9 9-12 58 Ben Orde-Powlett(7) 25/1 118 — —

11 ran TIME 5m 23.60s (slow by 26.60s) TOTAL SP 118%

1st OWNER: John P McManus BRED: Gerard Mullins TRAINER: Jonjo O'Neill

2nd OWNER: Trevor Hemmings

3rd OWNER: B T Stewart-Brown

TOTE TRIFECTA Pool £393.20, 0.30 w/u - part won. Pool of £275.24 c/f. Place 6 £58.33, Place 5 £38.05 WIN £14.30 PL £3.30, £5.30, £2.30; Ex £129.60; CSF £196.90; TRICAST £934.33Pool £393.20, 0.30 w/u - part won. Pool of £275.24 c/f. Place 6 £58.33, Place 5 £38.05

PLACEPOT £68.60 to a £1 stake. Pool: £60,785.55. 646.60 winning tickets.

QUADPOT £58.60 to a £1 stake. Pool: £4,567.70. 57.60 winning tickets.

First fence after winning post omitted.

ANALYSIS: A competitive handicap, run at a fair gallop on this testing ground, saw BE MY BETTER HALF return to winning form under a smashing ride. Always in the front rank, he led four out and kept galloping to the line. His jumping was better here and, so long as he can repeat that in future races, he may be able to score again.

Better Days ran a sound race in defeat, despite racing keenly, and battled to the line. Off his current mark, he is capable of winning something similar.

Claymore came to win his race two out, but then failed to get home as well as the front two.

Backbeat travelled well behind the leaders, but came up short when push came to shove on his first run for three months.