C2 | 5+
Winner GBP £13,008 - 6 runners
2m 3f 58y
Going: Good
Surface: T
KINGSTON PRIDE (3) can bounce back from a disappointing effort in the G2 Winter Novices Hurdle at Sandown during December. Trained by Nicky Henderson and looked a useful prospect making a winning hurdle debut at Uttoxeter last year. Could appreciate the return to less testing conditions. CREST OF FORTUNE (1) finished runner-up under a penalty at Exeter last time and looks sure to go well now up in trip with first-time blinkers applied. FIRST CONFESSION (2) will find this much easier than when tailed off in the G1 Challow Novices Hurdle at Newbury and may get involved. OLD COWBOY (5) rounds out the shortlist.