C1 | 5+
Winner GBP £84,405 - 21 runners
1m 7f 199y
Going: Good to Soft
Surface: T
UNEXPECTED PARTY (7) won this twelve months ago 7lb lower. Still looks feasibly treated off the current mark with connections setting this as a target all season. Trained by Dan Skelton the typically decent jumper is selected to go one spot better than when runner-up in a competitive handicap chase at Windsor during January. Market support for SO SCOTTISH (10) will be interesting on his first start since a wind-operation. Revisits fences after falling here December 2023. Trainer Gavin Cromwell enters THE KING OF PRS (11) and MY MATE MOZZIE (3). Both also warrant consideration where the former looked good winning a valuable fences handicap at Fairyhouse in latest and can remain competitive off a 9lb higher mark while the latter travelled smoothly into contention when second at Leopardstown and brings course and distance form. JPR ONE (1) might feature.