Horse Racing Tips for Tomorrow: Exeter, November 8
Exeter stages a seven-race jumps card on Friday featuring the Grade 2 Haldon Gold Cup Handicap Chase.
Here we deliver our verdict on the big race and have found two more tips on the card.
Horse Racing Tips for Tomorrow:
2.25 Exeter – Grade 2 2m1f Haldon Gold Cup Handicap Chase
Six runners are set to face the starter in this traditional early-season highlight which until recently took place on a Tuesday, and it is to be hoped that switching to a Friday in 2022 isn’t the reason behind a concerning drop in the ratings of the participants this year.
High-class chasers such as Cue Card and Politologue have won the race previously and eight of the ten winners since 2014 have been officially rated 151+.
However, trends backers are unable to follow that ratings pointer this year as the handicap is headed by the 149-rated JPR One, who represents Joe Tizzard from the same Dorset yard that his father Colin sent out the aforementioned Cue Card.
Bottom-weight Scarface, another runner for Tizzard, is the only runner with the benefit of a start this season, but eight of the last ten winners had been off the track for at least 187 days before their win and, of the Tizzard pair, slight preference is for the classier JPR One, albeit the 17lb Scarface receives is a potential leveller.
The in-form Dan Skelton stable sends out Heltenham and Etalon, but the prospect of good ground is unlikely to prove ideal for either and Heltenham is yet to win on a right-handed track.
Nine winners since 2014 had won at least once racing right-handed, eight were bred in France, six had run in at least one Grade 1 Chase in the past and the same number had no more than eight previous runs over fences.
All of those pointers favour the 147-rated selection DJELO, who can become the sixth six-year-old to win this race in that period.
Paul Nicholls has won four runnings since 2014 but the French-bred six-year-old Sans Bruit is another runner who may have appreciated some rain.
Horse Racing Tips for Tomorrow:
3.35 Exeter – Class 3 3m Haldon ‘Challenger’ Stayers’ Handicap Chase
The training partnership of Jonjo and AJ O’Neill are 6-31 (19%) with their runners in the past fortnight and their representative BEACHCOMBER makes plenty of each-way appeal in Exeter’s penultimate race, a nine-runner staying handicap chase.
The six-year-old won a Class 2 handicap hurdle over a slightly longer trip at right-handed Huntingdon in January 2024, having won a maiden hurdle on good ground over the same course and distance last November.
The selection made a really encouraging chasing debut at left-handed Chepstow last month, reaching third from today’s mark. An even more competitive effort is anticipated given the benefit of that return, back on a right-handed track and on a decent surface.
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4.10 Exeter – Class 4 2m 1/2f Southwest Rail Solutions Handicap Hurdle
Finally, the in-from training duo of Philip Hobbs and Johnson White could enter the winner’s enclosure with SUNNINGHILL, who has decent win claims in the finale.
The five-year-old has achieved a Racing Post Rating (RPR) of 72 over 1m2f on the Flat and he shaped encouragingly when reaching an improved third in a Uttoxeter maiden hurdle on good ground last month.
The selection should appreciate this stiffer stamina test entering handicap company from an exploitable opening handicap mark of 104.
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