Racing's Best Ratings With Timeform Handicap Chase (GBB Race).
Kelso · Friday, 13 Feb · 19:00
· 2m 7f 96y
· Class 2
· TURF
WEIGHEDIN
Status
15:00
Off time
6
Runners
Heavy
Going
🎯 Tipster's 1·2·3
Sporting Life pick
🏆 Top pick
KING OF ANSWERS (IRE
🥈 Second
EMPIRE STEEL (IRE
🥉 Third
ELVIS MAIL (FR
Betting forecast
Market prediction · 6 runners · sorted by price
01 · 🏆 FAV
2.38
11/8
02 · 🥈 2nd
5.50
9/2
03 · 🥉 3rd
6
5/1
04 · —
6.50
11/2
05 · —
7.50
13/2
06 · —
15
14/1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | 1 | — |
Elvis Mail (G)
[T]
Multiple course scorer, including 3¼m handicap last season. At the veteran stage now but has shown enough in a hurdle/chase this season to think he could make an impact now back at his favoured Kelso.
|
Bruce Lynn | N W Alexander | 12 | 76.2 kg |
15
14/1
|
| 2nd | 2 | — |
Bill Baxter (G)
Winner of 12-runner listed handicap chase at Punchestown Festival (24.5f) last spring. Started this campaign with 2 creditable efforts and looked unsuited by a drop back to 21.5f when below par at Market Rasen last month. This trip more su…
|
James Bowen | W Greatrex | 10 | 73.9 kg |
5.50
9/2
|
| 3rd | 3 | — |
Maximilian (G)
Smart novice hurdler in 2022/23. Very lightly raced since but showed useful form when runner-up in maiden chases in December. Below that level when 22 lengths second at Ayr with cheekpieces added last time. The headgear is quickly discarde…
|
B S Hughes | D McCain Jnr | 10 | 73 kg |
7.50
13/2
|
| 5th | 4 | — |
Empire Steel (G)
Four-time course scorer, including this race twice and a listed contest over this trip. Almost certainly not quite the force of old as a 12-y-o but his handicap mark reflects that and his Musselburgh reappearance 13 days ago was quite enco…
|
Charlie Maggs | A M Thomson | 12 | 72.1 kg |
6.50
11/2
|
| 4th | 5 | — |
Dare To Shout (G)
[T]
Didn't need to improve much (if at all) to make a winning reappearance at Carlisle (3m) in October. Not in quite the same form when fourth over C&D next time and given a break since pulling up in the Rehearsal at Newcastle at the end of No…
|
Danny McMenamin | Mrs A Hamilton | 9 | 71.2 kg |
6
5/1
|
| 1st | 6 | — |
King Of Answers (G)
FAV
[P1]
Fairly useful winning hurdler in the mud who showed the benefit of his chasing debut when bagging a 5-runner C&D handicap (soft) in December. Creditable fourth of 5 in a Windsor novice handicap since and he brings unexposed potential up ag…
|
D R Fox | L Russell & M Scudamore | 7 | 70.8 kg |
2.38
11/8
|
Betting forecast: King Of Answers (11/8), Bill Baxter (9/2), Dare To Shout (5/1), Empire Steel (11/2), Maximilian (13/2), Elvis Mail (14/1)
Prize money
| Position | Prize |
|---|---|
| P1 | 11882.0 GBP |
| P2 | 5468.0 GBP |
| P3 | 2734.0 GBP |
| P4 | 1368.0 GBP |
| P5 | 682.0 GBP |