CHRISTMAS Gorse, a relation of Grand National winner Party Politics,
was something of a later developer, still a maiden after nine starts.
But he gave an indication that he is about to start maintaining the
family honour when finally breaking his duck at Leicester last Monday.
A 6lb penalty leaves him attractively treated on only 10st 1lb and he
is napped to follow up.
Good betting opportunities are otherwise thin on the ground at
Nottingham.
There will be little value about probable winners Coulton in the
Kingston Chase and Cyborgo in the maiden race, neither of whom is worth
opposing.
By contrast, any number can be given a chance in the Nottingham Gold
Card Hurdle and this is not a race for confident predictions.
None the less, Bollin Magdalene is difficult to get away from. She has
won both her starts this term in the style of a progressive hurdler and
there is no telling how much further improvement she has in her.
Valerios King is worth waiting for in the last. His debut second to
Coiled Spring at Doncaster early in December is good bumper form.
A double on this course last week suggests that Simon Christian's
string are in good form and Valerios King should be straight enough to
defy a near two-month break.
* CAB On Target has been ruled out of the Gold Cup by trainer Mary
Reveley and is set to return to hurdling at Wetherby on Saturday.
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article