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Marston's 61 Deep Midlands Grand National (Listed Open Handicap Chase) (GBB Race)
4m 2f 8y
Going: Good to Soft
Surface: Turf
Draw Advantage: NoneTIME TO GET UP was well fancied for the Kim Muir at Cheltenham earlier in the week and he makes plenty of appeal stepping up for a marathon test for the first time. He caught the eye on his UK debut for Jonjo O'Neill when third at Aintree and the step up to 3m1f at Wincanton last time saw him improve to gain his first success. The son of Presenting went up 8lb for that performance but he represents a stable who are renowned for producing these staying types, they won this contest with Synchronised back in 2010, and this lightly-raced individual gets the vote. Highland Hunter is another unexposed novice who arrives having finished second at Exeter on his latest start. The eight-year-old is likely to enter the reckoning along with Screaming Colours, who finished second in the Punchestown National Trial, and Golan Fortune.
TIME TO GET UP was well fancied for the Kim Muir at Cheltenham earlier in the week and he makes plenty of appeal stepping up for a marathon test for the first time. He caught the eye on his UK debut for Jonjo O'Neill when third at Aintree and the step up to 3m1f at Wincanton last time saw him improve to gain his first success. The son of Presenting went up 8lb for that performance but he represents a stable who are renowned for producing these staying types, they won this contest with Synchronised back in 2010, and this lightly-raced individual gets the vote. Highland Hunter is another unexposed novice who arrives having finished second at Exeter on his latest start. The eight-year-old is likely to enter the reckoning along with Screaming Colours, who finished second in the Punchestown National Trial, and Golan Fortune.