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There's been a debate between the owner and me about whether Curtiz will stay ten furlongs. If he follows the example of his siblings Supamouse and Affair he surely will. I must say I'm surprised that he hasn't managed to win a race yet but from a good draw in one hopefully Charlie can get…

Zayriyan is now without a win in 36 career starts and always seems to find new ways of getting beaten. Often it's a slow start, but when he gets that right he can run into trouble as happened last time when he was third at Chelmsford. Our biggest problem today may be getting out of…

Serious Ego doesn't have the greatest win ratio, especially his 1-16 with Gordon Elliott but he has been pretty consistent for me and ran his best race last time on comeback. I hope they go off hard in this race as I think that will give him his best chance if everything falls right for…

Gortroe Joe is in fantastic form and that's because we've got his head right. He also probably has one to beat so it might just be a day of hitting the crossbar if our luck's out. Let's hope it's in!

This is his Champion Chase or Gold Cup moment. First Flow deserves to be here as he has won his last five and I really will be over the moon if he could be placed. He will have the ground in his favour but is he really up to taking on the best two-mile chasers…

I had considered running Just Your Type over hurdles too but kept him to fences and he's wearing first-time blinkers also. He has the ability to go well, stays and doesn't mind the ground. It's up to him.

Silver Hallmark is a very nice horse and he's in good form. There's one obvious one to beat and if he does we'll have a smart animal on our hands.

Marown is a grand horse and he's done nothing wrong so far. This is a big step up in class but you have to dip your toes in the water at some stage. I'm sure he won't let us down.

Running here will qualify Alaphilippe for the EBF Final at Sandown but today's task under a double penalty looks tough. To be fair we do not know quite how good he is but on official ratings he has a fair bit to find trying to give 10lb to a horse rated 2lb higher. It would…

It's just not been happening for Petite Ganache the last couple of times so we're switching him back over fences. He's schooled nicely and now I'm trying him in blinkers. He has the ability so let's hope they help him concentrate - if so he would have a decent chance.

If we'd have had a half reasonable winter I think we might have had a good campaign with Kitty Hall and maybe it's not too late. She disappointed on her comeback but back to two miles she can run a nice race.

Bullion Boss won okay up there the last time. He's a horse you have to drop right in and ride for luck and hopefully back there over a half-mile shorter trip he can cope with the 8lb rise.

Twojayslad won at Doncaster and should go well again but I wouldn't want the ground to be too tacky. They've had plenty of rain at Ludlow so hopefully they will go through it okay.

The form of Fine Casting's second at Warwick looks pretty strong and I think it will take a decent newcomer to beat him. For a bumper horse he has plenty of speed.

I was very surprised to see the money for San Juan overnight - it certainly wasn't from anyone connected with the stable. Until we get his suspect wind sorted I think he'll struggle to win a race and while this is a very poor contest he didn't progress from his second to third run.

20/01/21 - 1st 2/1 Original quote: "The form of Fine Casting's second at Warwick looks pretty strong and I think it will take a decent newcomer to beat him. For a bumper horse he has plenty of speed."