3:40 – Fanfan Du Seuil 9/1 E/W
It’s hard to be overtly confident with this one but I do think there are reasons to expect some rejuvenation from this once talented hurdler.
Fifth in the 2019 Fred Winter from a mark of 136, he has failed to progress as might have been hoped. He wasn’t totally disgraced in his first season in open company (as many ex-juveniles are), shaping well in some decent handicaps. Last season, however, was a write-off; a prep run in France preceded an attempted chasing career, with saw him jump poorly on his sole attempt resulting in him being pulled up.
He’s returned for a few runs in France from March to April, where he didn’t pull up any trees, but they are persisting with him and he has dropped to a very tempting mark of 112.
This is the easiest race he has contested in some time and his ideal conditions have seemingly been a flat two miles on good ground, which he will get here; a lot of his recent races have come on a testing surface which has never seen him to best effect.
Tom George has a 24% S/R when sending just one runner to Huntingdon (A/E 1.4), while many other horses from his yard have returned from a stint in France with a new lease of life.
There are clearly risks attached but having dropped so far in the weights and with conditions in his favour for the first time in two years, he’s worth taking a chance on in what is a winnable race.
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