WINCANTON (17 Nov 2005)

Good

1:30 South West Racing Club Handicap Hurdle (Class E) (4yo+,0-105)

[off 1:30] £3,525.35, £1,027.46, £513.99 11 hdles 2m6f

Comments In Running OR TS RPR

1 Lord Nellsson Andrew Turnell 9 11-4 R Johnson 5/2 97 — —

2 5 Big Rob (IRE) B G Powell 6 11-1 J P McNamara 15/8F 94 — —

3 2 Maximinus M Madgwick 5 11-4 Christian Williams 40/1 97 — —

4 4 Quintus (USA) A King 10 11-4 v1 R Thornton 16/1 97 — —

5 8 Protagonist B N Pollock 7 11-2 T Messenger(7) 40/1 102 — —

6 1½ Euradream (IRE) Jean-Rene Auvray 7 11-12 D Crosse 22/1 105 — —

7 8 Kadam (IRE) P F Nicholls 5 11-5 b L Heard(7) 8/1 105 — —

8 27 Knight Of Silver S C Burrough 8 10-9 R Greene 20/1 88 — —

9 22 Cloudy Blues (IRE) R H Buckler 7 10-2 B Hitchcott 66/1 81 — —

10 8 Skye Blue (IRE) M J Weeden 8 9-11 4p R Young(3) 100/1 79 — —

11 28 Ideal Jack (FR) G A Ham 9 9-10 t E Dehdashti(7) 40/1 82 — —

F Courant D´Air (IRE) Lucinda Featherstone 4 11-6 R Stephens(5) 33/1 104 — —

PU Laudamus R H Alner 7 11-7 A Thornton 5/1 100 — —

13 ran TIME 5m 25.30s (slow by 16.30s) TOTAL SP 118%

NON RUNNER: Quarrymount

1st OWNER: Dajam Ltd BRED: Miss Diana Rockingham Gill TRAINER: Andrew Turnell

2nd OWNER: P H Betts

3rd OWNER: DDB Racing 1

TOTE WIN £3.60 PL £1.90, £1.70, £8.00; Ex £9.60; CSF £7.13; TRICAST £146.30

ANALYSIS: Dry overnight and the ground was much the same as the previous day with the jockeys reporting it was just on the slow side of good and a shade dead in places.

This was only an ordinary contest on paper. LORD NELLSSON managed to get off the mark over hurdles at the 25th attempt. He was being pushed and shoved along from some way out but the response was there and in the end he scored in the style of a horse who will get further. His trainer is considering trying him over fences again in the near future.

Big Rob, switching back to hurdles after some unhappy experiences chasing, had every chance in the straight. He got in here on a fairly lenient mark but it would be no surprise to see him sent back over fences now.

Maximinus plodded on up the straight while Quintus, visored for the first time, gave the impression he wants further and is now quite favourably handicapped compared to his Irish mark.