Alan King reveals he was impressed as Yanworth made a
winning debut over fences at Exeter yesterday.
The Christmas and Aintree Stayers Hurdle didn’t jump
perfectly, and caused odds-on backers a scare when not fluent two from home,
but Barry Geraghty pushed him clear of Sternrubin to win comfortably and almost
effortlessly.
The bookmakers have since shortened him to 8-1 for the JLT
Novices Chase at next year’s Cheltenham Festival.
“It's job done and I'm pleased and relieved,” said the
Barbury Castle-maestro.
“He was a little bit high over the first few fences, but
they weren't going very quick and I thought he warmed to his task well.
"He put down at the second-last, but he'll learn from
that and overall I'm quite happy with the way he managed to get to Sternrubin,
who is race-fit and a pretty good horse as well, and beat him."
"I hadn't really at any targets looked beyond today, to
be honest. I just wanted to get this out of the way.
"I think there's a novice chase back here on November
15 over two-mile-three, so we might look at that, but we'll see how he comes
out of this and go from there."
JP McManus’ £100,000 purchase Onefortheroadtom established
himself as an exciting novice hurdler for Harry Fry.
He battled hard to see off former Group Two winner Lalor to
land the prize on his British debut; his only other run came when winning an
Irish point-to-point.
"We were hopeful he would run well and Exeter is a nice
place to start these novices off,” said the Dorset-based trainer.
"It's great he's made a winning start and hopefully
he's a horse with a nice future. He's only a four-year-old so we're in no great
rush with him.
“We'll just run him in another novice under a penalty and go
from there."
Johnny Farrelly’s Gingili, Oliver Greenall’s Cave Top and
Nigel Hawke’s Midnight Request won handicaps. Evan Williams landed his 23rd
winner of the year with Market Road.
Volcano was an exciting bumper winner on the card, making
his debut for Christian Williams and Richard Johnson.
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