Welsh Guards Association Handicap Hurdle.
Ludlow · Sunday, 10 May · 18:02
· 1m 7f 169y
· Class 4
· TURF
WEIGHEDIN
Status
15:02
Off time
7
Runners
Good (Good to Firm in places)
Going
🎯 Tipster's 1·2·3
Sporting Life pick
🏆 Top pick
PERGAMON (FR
🥈 Second
ZUCAYAN (FR
🥉 Third
LORD CAUVELLIERE (FR
Betting forecast
Market prediction · 7 runners · sorted by price
01 · 🏆 FAV
2.20
6/5
02 · 🥈 2nd
4
3/1
03 · 🥉 3rd
6.50
11/2
04 · —
9
8/1
05 · —
9
8/1
06 · —
17
16/1
07 · —
151
150/1
Sporting Life forecast prices — published the night before the race. Top 3 highlighted as market favourites.
Runners
| Pos | No. | Dr | Horse | Form | Jockey | Trainer | Age | Wgt | Best decimal odds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5th | 1 | — |
Hooper (G)
Quirky sort who ended his time with Nicky Henderson out of sorts. Sold for only £3,500 and can only be watched returning from 16 months off with his usual headgear discarded.
|
4349P/5 | Miss Amber Jackson-Fennell | N & W Twiston-Davies | 10 | 76.2 kg |
17
16/1
|
| 1st | 2 | — |
Pergamon (G)
FAV
[PT]
Soundly beaten on first couple of handicap hurdles but found a chunk of improvement returning from 5 months off when winning 8-runner event at Huntingdon just over 5 weeks ago, seeming well suited by the drop back to 2m. Every chance he wi…
|
14561-1 | William Shanahan | J Candlish | 5 | 75.7 kg |
2.20
6/5
|
| 7th | 3 | — |
The Tide Turns (G)
[PT]
No impact on all 3 starts for new yard, the latest returning from a 5-month break.
|
0F0/PP9- | Lewis Stones | Stephen Allen | 8 | 75.3 kg |
151
150/1
|
| 6th | 4 | — |
Soleil D'arizona (M)
[HT]
Three-time hurdle winner from the front in 2025. Below par on first 2 starts back from a break in February but took a step back in the right direction when fifth of 11 in 2m Stratford handicap in March. Found to have bled at Plumpton since…
|
156053/ | Harry Skelton | D Skelton | 6 | 75.3 kg |
4
3/1
|
| 2nd | 5 | — |
Zucayan (G)
[T]
Has an excellent record here (all three career wins over C&D), most recently in this corresponding race last season. Struggled on the level towards the back end of last season but back on song when second of 9 over C&D (good to soft) 5 mon…
|
1552-2F | Nick Slatter | F O'Brien | 9 | 72.1 kg |
6.50
11/2
|
| 3rd | 6 | — |
Ufouria (M)
[T]
Bumper winner in Ireland and bits and pieces of promise for this yard over hurdles, shaped a little better than the distance beaten suggested when tenth of 13 in handicap at Stratford (19f, good to soft) 3 weeks ago. Back down in trip and …
|
47640-3 | J J Burke | A Ralph | 8 | 70.3 kg |
9
8/1
|
| 4th | 7 | — |
Lord Cauvelliere (G)
Point bumper winner landed a Stratford bumper on his Rules debut and was only narrowly denied under a penalty at Bangor last June. Nowhere near that level in 3 starts over hurdles but may well prove a different proposition now handicapping…
|
12577-4 | Callum Pritchard | Sheila Lewis | 5 | 68.5 kg |
9
8/1
|
Betting forecast: Pergamon (6/5), Soleil D'arizona (3/1), Zucayan (11/2), Ufouria (8/1), Lord Cauvelliere (8/1), Hooper (16/1), The Tide Turns (150/1)
Prize money
| Position | Prize |
|---|---|
| P1 | 4489.0 GBP |
| P2 | 2066.0 GBP |
| P3 | 1033.0 GBP |
| P4 | 517.0 GBP |
| P5 | 258.0 GBP |