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Tuesday October 23

  • 23-10-2012 2:17pm
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    rossom
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    3.40 Exeter

    Marleno 20/1 NAP

    Anthony Middleton's 6 year old went straight into my notebook on stable debut last Thursday when a big eye catcher at Wincanton over 2m. Under todays pilot Charlie Poste, Marleno was dropped out in the rear of the field and was given very tender handling and was never really asked for an effort of any sort. It screamed as if he was just out for the spin, which makes a lot of sense considering it was his first start for 7 months. Prior to joining Middleton, Marleno had a spell with Brendan Powell (1 start) as well as Martin Keighley and Milton Harris and he showed some decent form with the latter trainer that makes him look quite well handicapped. Having run a good 3rd in a Listed Novices hurdle in October 2010, he got off the mark on his handicap hurdles debut off a mark of 106 that December and at the time he looked to be a rather progressive animal. The form of his handicap victory at Taunton looks extremely strong. The 2nd Dream Esteem (now 142), 3rd Bold Addition (now 136) and 4th Bally Legend (now 131) have won plenty of races between them and are now 22lb, 18lb and 15lb higher rated respectively so it was a really nice win looking back. I'm not for one second saying that he's going to progress to that sort of level but you don't beat 3 horses that improved so much and in a relatively short period of time without having a decent bit of ability, especially as he is now 2lb below that victory. In addition to this, he ran a couple of good races off marks of 114 and 112 (latterly for Martin Keighley) last year over hurdles as well. For the rest of last year, he mixed chasing with hurdling for Keighley off higher marks than he has to contend with today and he ran ok but not amazingly. After leaving Keighley, he joined Brendan Powell where he was sent off favourite for a chase at Plumpton in March where he finished last of the 5 and his last effort was on Thursday for Middleton when giving what I thought a very easy time of things on what looked clearly a pipe opener. Its very interesting to also note that his current owners have kept hold of him despite changing trainers 3 times and if Middleton has worked the oracle with him I think he looks primed for a massive run. 12/1 best priced available now.


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