Good To Firm

5:00 Racecourse Video Services Standard Open National Hunt Flat Race (class 6) (4-6yo)

[off 5:02] £1,626.50, £477.50, £238.75, £119.25 2m

Comments In Running OR TS RPR

1 Arctic Ghost N Wilson 6 11-0 Wilson Renwick 7/1 65 102

2 1½ Warlord R H Buckler 5 11-0 Benjamin Hitchcott 12/1 63 100

3 4 Spitfire Sortie (IRE) M W Easterby 5 11-4 b1 Mr T Greenall(3) 5/1 65 103

4 9 Northern Vic (IRE) H P Hogarth 5 11-0 David O´Meara 16/1 47 87

5 3½ Mam Ratagan N J Henderson 5 11-7 Mick Fitzgerald 11/4F 50 91

6 1¼ Mister Etek T D Walford 5 11-0 Jim Crowley 25/1 42 82

7 2 Ididnthinkidmakeit P R Webber 6 11-0 James Davies 13/2 39 80

8 1¼ Fixed Interest (IRE) H D Daly 4 10-10 Mark Bradburne 13/2 34 75

9 nk Dix Huit Cyborg (FR) J R Norton 5 10-11 Lee Vickers(3) 33/1 37 79

10 nk Medic (IRE) T J Fitzgerald 5 11-0 Robert Thornton 8/1 37 78

11 1 Black Ven (IRE) O Sherwood 5 11-0 Leighton Aspell 14/1 36 77

12 3 Swingit Lad C Tinkler 6 11-0 Tom Scudamore 12/1 32 74

13 36 William The Bloody P T Dalton 5 11-0 Andrew Thornton 40/1 — 38

14 7 One Accord Miss L C Siddall 5 11-0 Tom Siddall 50/1 — 31

15 8 Grandpops Joy (IRE) K J Burke 5 10-9 Paddy Merrigan(5) 25/1 — 23

15 ran TIME 3m 49.90s (slow by 14.90s) TOTAL SP 136%

NON RUNNER: Ballabriggs (IRE)

1st OWNER: Malcom Wilson BRED: Helshaw Grange Farms Ltd And Le Moss Ltd TRAINER: N Wilson

2nd OWNER: Nick Elliott

3rd OWNER: M P Burke

TOTE WIN £6.60 PL £2.40, £5.50, £2.90; Ex £158.90; CSF £95.81Place 6 £72.71, Place 5 £47.16

PLACEPOT £77.30 to a £1 stake. Pool: £42,108.45. 397.40 winning tickets.

QUADPOT £15.20 to a £1 stake. Pool: £2,352.60. 114.30 winning tickets.

ANALYSIS: Potentially quite a competitive bumper, with each of the eight to have raced having at least reached a place and several of the newcomers making appeal on paper, but they went only a steady gallop, so that there was an advantage in racing up with the pace and the first three were always prominent - and were also among the most experienced in the line-up with three outings apiece.

ARCTIC GHOST had been improving with his races and got the ideal ride, always in the first two, going on over 2f out and staying on well.

Warlord was also in touch from the off and moved into second place in the final furlong - this belatedly confirmed the promise of his debut and he may have benefited from this return to a sound surface.

Spitfire Sortie made much of the running until headed by the winner then weakened in the final furlong - the blinkers brought him back to a bit of form.

The first three came clear of Northern Vic, who did best of the newcomers and also those not ridden up with the pace - he kept on encouragingly and is bred to be suited by a stiffer test of stamina so should build on this debut.