13.05
SoftDragonBet Supporting Welsh Racecourses/EBF “National Hunt” Novices’ Hurdle (Qualifier) (GBB Race)
- Prize money: £4901.4
- 2m 4f 0y
- Class 4
- 4 runners
Runners: 4 runners
Type: Hurdle Turf
Surface: Turf
Weather: Showers
Abandoned
Form: 121-21
Last run: 26 days
W: 11st 8lb
5 yo Gelding
OR: 127
| Place / No / Draw |
Date / Going /
Distance / Class |
Time + Course Horse + Weight Jockey / Trainer |
Verdict | Starting price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
11th 9 |
14th Mar 2026 Good To Soft 2m 7f 70y Class 2 |
10st 11lb |
Progressive and productive until going the wrong way (at about 2m4f) this season; still hasn't won beyond 2m under rules; enough to prove upped further in distance. |
25/1 |
|
11th 6 |
14th Feb 2026 Soft 2m 3f 63y Class 2 |
11st 2lb |
Acts on heavy ground; disappointing in both starts this term but can't be written off just yet; previously a progressive sort with a good strike-rate and solid record. |
8/1 |
|
1st 1 |
1st Mar 2025 Heavy 2m 0f 69y Class 3 |
11st 9lb |
Justified favouritism in C&D novice contest (soft) last time, not needing to improve but enhancing a good rules record that now reads 1212121; solid contender on handicap debut. |
5/2 |
Abandoned
Form: 1 C
Last run: 50 days
W: 11st 8lb
5 yo Gelding
OR: —
| Place / No / Draw |
Date / Going /
Distance / Class |
Time + Course Horse + Weight Jockey / Trainer |
Verdict | Starting price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
1 |
12th Feb 2026 Heavy 2m 4f 25y Class 4 |
12st 0lb |
Point winner (3m, soft to heavy) who was 2-3 over hurdles (wins at 2m6f/2m4f on good to soft/heavy); made a bad mistake and pulled up on chase debut at Ffos Las (3m1f, soft) in October; something to prove after that but he was sent off the hot favourite and this lightly raced 7yo retains potential. |
13/8 |
|
3 |
28th Oct 2025 Soft 3m 1f 60y Class 4 |
12st 0lb |
Easily won slow-ground Irish point on debut in December 2023 and launched rules career with two hurdle wins here (2m6f/2m4f) towards end of last year; just a respectable fourth on handicap hurdle debut here (3m, soft) in January and absent since but looks a good prospect for chasing. |
7/2 |
Abandoned
Form: 12D14
Last run: 22 days
W: 11st 2lb
5 yo Gelding
OR: —
| Place / No / Draw |
Date / Going /
Distance / Class |
Time + Course Horse + Weight Jockey / Trainer |
Verdict | Starting price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
2nd 15 |
11th Jan 2025 Soft 2m 7f 191y Class 3 |
10st 0lb
|
First past the post in two Newton Abbot bumpers (good/soft) last summer; gave encouragement when well held taking minor honours over about 2m4f here and at Bangor in his two races over hurdles; upped in trip for this handicap debut and could find improvement, which he does need. |
14/1 |
|
2nd 15 |
11th Jan 2025 Soft 2m 7f 191y Class 3 |
10st 0lb
|
First past the post in two Newton Abbot bumpers (good/soft) last summer; gave encouragement when well held taking minor honours over about 2m4f here and at Bangor in his two races over hurdles; upped in trip for this handicap debut and could find improvement, which he does need. |
14/1 |
|
1 |
11th Jan 2025 Soft 2m 4f 0y Class 4 |
11st 6lb
|
|
Abandoned
Form: 2-
Last run: 246 days
W: 11st 2lb
4 yo Gelding
OR: —
| Place / No / Draw |
Date / Going /
Distance / Class |
Time + Course Horse + Weight Jockey / Trainer |
Verdict | Starting price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
12 |
26th Oct 2025 Good To Soft 2m 1f 162y Class 4 |
11st 4lb
|
Beaten by Potters Charm in his bumper but finished tailed off in two runs over hurdles last winter; retains potential but probably one for another day. |
25/1 |
|
5th 4 |
25th Jan 2025 1m 7f 168y Class 4 |
11st 8lb |
All three starts on heavy ground; no match for top novice hurdler Potters Charm in a Ffos Las bumper but was clear of a subsequent winning hurdler; may have needed the run but could still have shown more than he did in a 2m4f novice hurdle back there just before Christmas. |
9/1 |
|
5th 4 |
25th Jan 2025 1m 7f 168y Class 4 |
11st 8lb |
All three starts on heavy ground; no match for top novice hurdler Potters Charm in a Ffos Las bumper but was clear of a subsequent winning hurdler; may have needed the run but could still have shown more than he did in a 2m4f novice hurdle back there just before Christmas. |
9/1 |
Verdict
Two-time bumper winner JURANCON has made a very good start to his hurdling career, and this half-brother to Scottish National third Git Maker could improve again now up in trip. The unbeaten Rosscahill is feared most ahead of Alan De Banks.[Ben Hutton]
Selections
The Sun:
Jurancon