We got a bumper entry for the Monday after Cheltenham but the winners were hard to find and just seven of you have got off the mark. Still, I shall cheer for this one in the hope that this is his last hurrah. I'm really not a fan of horses being raced from the age of 13, even in hunter chases and even though it has been pointed out to me that the Royal Artillery Gold Cup was once won by a 17-year-old, De Pluvinel. Good luck to Jurado Express, a 15-year-old trying to win Kempton's hunter chase for the fourth year in a row. Who can trust him to get his act together? Not the average punter, it seems, as Dixie Bull is 10-1 on Betfair as I type. Jumping is clearly an issue but today's sounder surface should help and he clearly has the ability to win a race like today's novice hurdle. Things have not gone so well for Dixie Bull, who returned to Newbury earlier this month after a break and was in contention until smashing his way through the fourth-last, a mistake from which he could not recover. The eventual runner-up has since won twice, while the third horse was beaten only 12 lengths in the Neptune at Cheltenham last week. He's 6-4.Äixie Bull (3.15) also has form with Kid Cassidy, as he was probably going to be second behind that rival at Newbury in November when he fell at the last on his hurdling debut. A sounder surface today should help and David Arbuthnot's runner doesn't have to improve much on what he's shown so far to win this. Shuil Royale trailed Kid Cassidy by 12 lengths that day after failing to see out his race on soft ground. He has no fewer than five siblings who have won over hurdles and one of them, Kid Cassidy, finished one place ahead of him when he was third at Sandown last month. The winner of a couple of bumpers before showing promise on his hurdling debut, Shuil Royale (2.10) should be able to get off the mark over obstacles at Kempton today. He's on Stir On The Sea (2.30) and Chase Gate (5.20) at Exeter. He clearly has talent but at the moment his confidence must be at a low ebb, a factor that may well have contributed to his riding a finish one circuit too early at Folkestone last month. It is to be hoped he can turn things around because he was on a high at this time last year after winning at the Cheltenham Festival on Buena Vista and he continued to be productive through the summer and early autumn, getting four winners in October. white as well as 'near' white pixels will be transparent.The nightmare continues for Hadden Frost, who has had more than 100 rides since his last winner in November. On the other hand a non-zero value say N will make transparent all pixels with RGB values where the R G and B components have values from (255-N) to 255 i.e. A threshold value of 0 will make transparent all pixels with RGB values where the R G and B components are all exactly 255 i.e. If your logo does not have this property you can optionally have its background be made transparent provided it is white (or 'near' white) by entering a transparency threshold value. Ideally uploaded logos must have a transparent background.You can adjust the logo size placement and rotation once the upload is complete by clicking on the logo within the main image.(See note on Transparency Threshold below for more information.) Enter desired transparency threshold value.MAKE SURE THERE ARE NO NON-ALPHANUMERIC CHARACTERS IN THE FILE NAME.(These image formats are acceptable: jpeg gif png.) Choose the image file you want to upload and click the Open button.Click the Choose File button to open the dialog box.
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