3:00 – Zoffee 11/4
After running an encouraging race on his first start of the season, Zoffee looks poised to claim his second win over fences in this open looking race.
Last season, he posted his best effort (in terms of RPR) at this track on his second run of the season (it was his chase debut and he had a run on the flat a few weeks earlier to get him up to speed). He chased home the very useful Getaway Trump (rated 147, getting 10lbs) that day with two useful rivals a long way adrift of the front pair.
He didn’t manage to build on that, but his reappearance was encouraging and given that he lost a shoe and that he improved significantly for his first run last season, there are reasons to expect improvement here, while a mark of 125 shouldn’t be beyond him. He is also completely unexposed over this trip. Vision Des Flos dictated the race and jumped well from the front last time out but with other pace angles in the race, I can see Zoffee closing the gap here.
Phillip Hobbs has a 22% S/R (A/E 1.11) with his handicap chases at Warwick (since 2015) while Tom O’Brien has been riding well of late. Zoffee will need to eliminate the jumping errors but the fact that he has jumped well at the track and that there is a relatively low casualty race at the track both bode well for his chances.
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