09 January 2024 , 16:07
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COULD BE TROUBLE can reward punters in the Watch Off The Fence On attheraces.com Mares' Handicap Hurdle (2.35) at Doncaster.
Donald McCain’s consistent nine-year-old is a winner over both hurdles and fences, and while she was a distant third on her last outing at Aintree, the performance was better than it looked, having made most of the running before blowing up in the closing stages.
The daughter of Yeats rarely runs a bad race and is dropping down the weights. She is now on a competitive mark and over this two mile, three-and-a-half-furlong trip, on ground she will relish, there is every reason to expect a bold showing in an open contest.
Paul and Oliver Cole have just the one runner at Kempton Park, but it could well be a winning one.
MAVERICK STYLE is the pick of the nine-race card in the Unibet Extra Place Offers Every Day Handicap (4.25) over seven furlongs.
The three-year-old scored her first success in nine starts when battling gamely to hold on by a short head from Notre Dame in a nine-runner nursery over the same trip at Chelmsford last month.
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She clearly benefited from wearing blinkers for the first time, and can defy a 3lb penalty.
Paul Cole trains Newsboy's Kempton Park pick Maverick Style (Getty) Wednesday's selections
DONCASTER
12.20 PIPERS CROSS
12.50 ZAIN NIGHTS
1.25 CLASSIC KING
2.00 CRUZ CONTROL
2.35 COULD BE TROUBLE (NAP)
3.05 FENLAND TIGER
3.35 THE HAPPY CHAPATI
LEICESTER
1.05 SUPASUNRISE
1.40 PARIKARMA
2.15 HUNTER LEGEND
2.50 TOMMIE GUN
3.20 ARTEMIS KIMBO
3.50 BILLYTHEREALBIGRED
KEMPTON
4.25 MAVERICK STYLE (NB)
5.00 HANNAH'S RETURN
5.30 BALLYBAYMOONSHINER
6.00 RECUERDAME
6.30 GHOSTLORE
7.00 WAIT AND HOPE
7.30 POPCORN MAGIC
8.00 COMPOSITE
8.30 SIR RODNEYREDBLOOD
DOUBLE: COULD BE TROUBLE and MAVERICK STYLE