An overnight deluge has washed away the card at Fontwell Park this afternoon, with nearly 11mm of rain leaving the track waterlogged in places. “We’ve now had 73mm, which is just shy of three inches, in the last 10 days,” Ed Arkell, the clerk of the course, said this morning”, adding, “unfortunately, it was a fairly easy decision.”
There was plenty of rain overnight at Catterick too, where the going is now soft, and previous course-and-distance winner Turtle Cask (4.20) could be the answer to the stayers’ handicap hurdle. He is not the most consistent of performers but he does seem to like this test, and attracted plenty of support before his return to form when second here last time out. He is now back down to his last winning mark, and is a fair bet to exploit it at around 4-1.
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