Selection can defy favourite who debuts for the all-conquering Mullins yard in Betfair Hurdle after big-money move
The abandonment of the scheduled meetings at Warwick and Uttoxeter on Saturday leaves only Newbury’s card in the prime mid-afternoon slot and just four races on the ITV racing schedule, but that should at least allow punters to spend more time poring over the Betfair Hurdle at 3.15pm, which is as competitive and beguiling as ever.
This year’s renewal of Britain’s most valuable handicap hurdle also has a copybook dark horse at the top of the betting in Willie Mullins’s Ocastle Des Mottes, who is priced up at around 6-1 to make a winning debut for jumping’s most powerful stable after a big-money move from France last summer.