Warbler to sing the tune in Ladbroke

The Ladbroke Hurdle is your typically competitive valuable handicap hurdle which poses the usual questions, but the area I feel punters should concentrate on in their search for this afternoon’s winner is the state of the ground.

There’s nothing excessively strange about very soft ground at this time of year but a number of the more prominent horses in the market have doubts about their suitability to testing conditions.

Novice Prospect Wells tops the market at around 4-1 but all his winning form is on ground no worse than good to soft. His experience from the flat will be an asset but he’s not sure to enjoy a slog on his first foray into handicapping company over hurdles, and it takes a little faith to side with him at his such short odds.