An excellent card at Wincanton this afternoon is blessed with big fields and competitive races, but perhaps the most intriguing race of the afternoon with an eye to the future is the novice chase up at Catterick Bridge, where the high-class hurdler One Track Mind will make a second attempt to get his chasing career up and running.
One Track Mind’s first attempt to jump fences in public was perhaps the most underwhelming debut of the season so far. He was sent off favourite at 15-8 having taken a Grade One at the Punchestown Festival in April on his previous start, but made a hash of the first, barely jumped a fence with any fluency afterwards and started to tail himself off from early on the final circuit. He eventually crossed the line nearly 100 lengths behind the winner, Clan Des Obeaux.
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