7th December news

Tomahawk Wood makes his chasing bow tomorrow

The gelding has schooled well over fences, but I've yet to read anything to the contrary about a chasing debutant from any stable.

Tomahawk Wood starts off his chasing career in a novice handicap chase at Newcastle (he's a course winner) over an extended 2m 4f tomorrow. He carries his hurdling mark (OR 90) into this race, and it's a nice place to start.

Chuckie

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Bollin Julie at Hexham today

The grueling 3m handicap hurdle was attritional, there's just no other word for it. Only 5 finishers (mostly very tired) of the thirteen runners and having jumped well just in behind the leading group, race fitness started to tell 3 out and Callum decided to pull up approaching the last flight.
This was Bollin Julie's first run for 18 months, and we'd expect she'll need a few days to recover but another run in about a month's time would seem appropriate but under less testing conditions.

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