bet365 Scottish County Handicap Hurdle (GBB Race) — Musselburgh

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Sporting Life pick

🏆 Top pick

WELSH CHARGER (IRE

🥈 Second

WILLIETHEBUILDER (IRE

🥉 Third

AFADIL (FR

Betting forecast

Market prediction · 10 runners · sorted by price

01 · 🏆 FAV

Welsh Charger

4.50

7/2

02 · 🥈 2nd

Afadil

5

4/1

03 · 🥉 3rd

Williethebuilder

5

4/1

04 · —

Wise Eagle

7

6/1

05 · —

Star Of Guiting

9

8/1

06 · —

Kateira

10

9/1

07 · —

Static

17

16/1

08 · —

City Of Diamonds

19

18/1

09 · —

Gibbs Island

19

18/1

10 · —

Saligo Bay

29

28/1

Sporting Life forecast prices — published the night before the race. Top 3 highlighted as market favourites.

Runners

Pos	No.	Dr	Horse	Jockey	Trainer	Age	Wgt	Best decimal odds
8th	1	—	Kateira (M) Useful hurdler who made the most of good opportunity (sole rival amiss) when winning a listed mares' event at Wetherby (2m, good) in November. Creditable fourth in Grade 2 Ascot Hurdle 3 weeks later but not on her game when only third when…	Tristan Durrell	D Skelton	9	76.2 kg	10 9/1
4th	2	—	Williethebuilder (G) Not many improve for leaving Dan Skelton but this 7-y-o has done just that, winning pair of 2m Kempton handicaps in recent weeks. Raised another 6 lb but further progress can't be discounted in his current mood.	Toby McCain-Mitchell	Christian Williams	7	73 kg	5 4/1
7th	3	—	Gibbs Island (G) Victor Ludorum winner at Haydock last winter and returned to make a successful start to his handicap hurdle career at Chepstow (2m, good to firm) in October. Two lesser efforts have followed, though.	Stan Sheppard	T Lacey	5	72.1 kg	19 18/1
—	4	—	Welsh Charger (G) FAV Winner at this meeting for the last 2 years, including this race 12 months ago. Has posted respectable efforts in top-end 2m handicaps at Cheltenham and Ascot this winter and has dipped to only 1 lb above last year's winning mark. Likely t…	C Gethings	A Ralph	8	68 kg	4.50 7/2
3rd	5	—	Wise Eagle (G) Has tasted success here on the Flat and over hurdles but this useful sort had no apparent excuses when only sixth of 9 in 2½m course handicap on New Year's Day. Respectable seventh of 11 on AW Flat at Newcastle since.	Joshua Thompson	A Nicol	9	67.1 kg	7 6/1
5th	6	—	Saligo Bay (G) Likeable type who won 5 times (1 Fla, 4 hurdle) between September and December but his run of good form came to a halt when well beaten in a valuable event at Windsor 15 days ago.	Jonathan England	S England	8	66.7 kg	29 28/1
2nd	7	—	Afadil (G) Won this in 2024 and length second to Welsh Charger 12 months ago. Warmed up for this year's renewal with a creditable 5¼ lengths fourth of 9 to Star of Guiting over C&D on New Year's Day. Losing run mounting up but his strong C&D record a…	Freddie Keighley	P F Nicholls	7	64.4 kg	5 4/1
6th	8	—	City Of Diamonds (G) Improved again to make a winning handicap debut over C&D in November, driven out by 4¾ lengths from Star of Guiting. Not in the same form when behind that same rival over C&D on New Year's Day but no surprise were he to resume his progress…	B S Hughes	D McCain Jnr	6	64.4 kg	19 18/1
9th	9	—	Static (G) [H] Fairly useful sort who has finished third in 2m handicaps at Huntingdon and Kelso on his 2 completed starts this season. Brian Hughes seemingly prefers City of Diamonds.	Charlie Maggs	D McCain Jnr	5	64.4 kg	17 16/1
1st	10	—	Star Of Guiting (G) Dual juvenile winner for Nigel Twiston-Davies last season and his strong-travelling style has proved well suited to this C&D for new yard, winning a 9-runner handicap on New Year's Day. 4 lb out of the handicap here so effectively has a 10…	Sean Quinlan	Ewan Whillans	5	64.4 kg	9 8/1

Betting forecast: Welsh Charger (7/2), Afadil (4/1), Williethebuilder (4/1), Wise Eagle (6/1), Star Of Guiting (8/1), Kateira (9/1), Static (16/1), City Of Diamonds (18/1), Gibbs Island (18/1), Saligo Bay (28/1)

Prize money

Position	Prize
P1	20812.0 GBP
P2	9568.0 GBP
P3	4784.0 GBP
P4	2392.0 GBP
P5	1196.0 GBP
P6	596.0 GBP

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