← Horse Racing · Newbury · Tue 17 Feb

OLBG 'Chasing Excellence' Novices' Chase (GBB Race).

Newbury · Tuesday, 17 Feb · 18:15 · 2m 92y · Class 3 · TURF

WEIGHEDIN

Status

14:15

Off time

Runners

Soft (Heavy in places)

Going

🎯 Tipster's 1·2·3

Sporting Life pick

🏆 Top pick

QUEBECOIS (FR

🥈 Second

OLD COWBOY

            #1 · 6
          

🥉 Third

PERSONAL AMBITION (IRE

Market prediction · 4 runners · sorted by price

01 · 🏆 FAV

Quebecois

1.40

2/5

02 · 🥈 2nd

Personal Ambition

3.25

9/4

03 · 🥉 3rd

Old Cowboy

6

5/1

04 · —

Leading Choice

26

25/1

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

Pos	No.	Dr	Horse	Jockey	Trainer	Age	Wgt	Best decimal odds
—	1	—	Old Cowboy (G) Fairly useful novice hurdler and already a better chaser, leaving chase bow/return well behind when winning over C&D in December, impressing in all respects and value for extra over the result. Reported to have bled following a fall at Kem…	Freddie Mitchell	G & J Moore	6	73.9 kg	6 5/1
3rd	2	—	Leading Choice (G) Fair winning hurdler who ran below form on both starts in 2024/25. Should make a chaser but faces no easy task at the weights.	Sean Houlihan	Nicky Martin	9	70.8 kg	26 25/1
1st	3	—	Personal Ambition (G) [B1] Grade 2 hurdle winner who has shown useful form over fences but struggling for form at present, again running poorly when a well-beaten last of 5 in Grade 2 at Ascot latest. Blinkers now tried.	Ben Jones	B Pauling	7	70.8 kg	3.25 9/4
2nd	4	—	Quebecois (G) FAV [T] Dispatched pair of subsequent winners in 3m novice handicap hurdle at Ayr last spring. Resumed with promising second on Exeter chase debut in November and very much back on the up after a blip a Sandown when second in Timeform Novices' Han…	H Cobden	P F Nicholls	7	70.8 kg	1.40 2/5

Betting forecast: Quebecois (2/5), Personal Ambition (9/4), Old Cowboy (5/1), Leading Choice (25/1)