McCoy can return in style
The champion jockey has enjoyed a break in Dubai since injuring a shoulder in a fall at Kempton last month. He rides the once-raced Penny Pictures for his boss Martin Pipe in the opening Croxton Juvenile Maiden Hurdle and he is expected to step up on his third in a maiden at Kempton, where he raced very freely but still only went down by three lengths to Spectroscope and Navale.
Fiori stayed on well at Wetherby to be second after a break and he should have come on enough for that to be a major player in the Wrexham & North Wales LVA Novices’ Chase.
News Maker can hit the headlines in the Holywell Handicap Chase.
The Heather Dalton-trained News Maker was found out by a combination of heavy ground and possibly too long a trip, not to mention a 15lb rise in the weights, when second at Uttoxeter last month but conditions are more in his favour tomorrow in the Holywell Handicap Chase.
However, he did travel and jump well for a long way before he tired and certainly cannot be ignored back at an extended three miles.
Inch Perfect is the selection in the Howden Joinery Maiden Chase at Catterick.
Richard Fahey’s charge won twice on the all-weather in January and ran easily his best race over hurdles when a six-length runner-up to Midnight Creek at Kelso in December.
On that occasion he took up the running three-out but was hauled in by the winner although the form suggests there is a race in him.
