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12:15 Hexham
Download The Award Winning Attheraces App Juvenile Maiden Hurdle (Class 5)
- 3 Runners
- Distance: 2m 48y
- Going: Heavy
- Surface: Turf
- £5,000 added
- Winner: £3,249
- 2nd: £954
- 3rd: £477
- 4th: £238
- Form 5
- Age 3
- Weight 10-12
- Trainer M M McNiff
- Jockey D R Fox
tracked leaders in 3rd, chased winner from 4th, never able to challenge
Great Tempo (FR)
170- Form 542
- Age 3
- Weight 10-12
- Official Rating 128
- Trainer D Pipe
- Jockey T Scudamore
made all, soon clear, unchallenged, canter
Josephine K
23- Form PP4
- Age 3
- Weight 10-5
- Trainer S Corbett
- Jockey James Corbett
chased winner to 4th, never able to challenge
Verdict
GREAT TEMPO arrives here having finished runner-up on testing ground at Auteuil in June. The third and fourth have subsequently won at Listed level so this shouldn't prove a problem for David Pipe's charge who has frightened away most of the opposition. Irish raider Ashjan is fitted with blinkers after a very poor debut over hurdles at Thurles while Josephine K has yet to finish in front of another rival in her four career starts.
Formwatch
Ashjan 80-1 (10-12) Chased leaders and prominent, jumped badly right 1st, slow and bad mistake 2nd, jumped right 3rd, soon lost place and dropped to rear, no impression from 4 out, weakened and completely tailed off, 5th of 7, dist behind Zig Zag (10-12) at Thurles 2m mdn gd in Oct.
Great Tempo (FR) (10-7) 2nd of 14, 5 1/2l behind Full Glass (10-12) at Auteuil 2m 1f hvy in Jun.
Josephine K 33-1 (10-10) Took keen hold, held up, headway approaching 3 out, beaten next, not fluent last, lost 3rd flat, last of 4, 19l behind Becky The Thatcher (10-10) at Musselburgh 2m fll (4) gd in Nov.