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Lucinda Russell has a big week ahead of her as she saddles leading Grand National hope One For Arthur at Aintree and there’s entitled to be plenty of stable confidence behind him given the trainer’s current form. March yielded nine winners for the yard from 34 runners – an excellent strike-rate of 26% - all bar one of those wins, incidentally, shared between conditional riders Blair Campbell, Alexander Thorne and Stephen Mulqueen. The stable notched a double at Kelso last Saturday and looks set to be well represented back at the same course’s next fixture on Monday. Either of the stable’s entries in the card’s most valuable event, a two mile one furlong handicap chase, would be of interest. Imjoeking was a course-and-distance winner earlier in the season and returned to form with a win at Ayr last time, and while Vengeur de Guye is on a long losing run (he too a course-and-distance winner a couple of years ago), he confirmed his recent return to form on a rare run down south when second at Sandown. Tantamount is entered in both handicap hurdles on the card and has an absence since the autumn to overcome, but was in good form when last seen.
Richard Fahey already had a turf winner on the board before the season got under way in Britain when the filly Melesina won a listed race in France in mid-March. The stable has been in good form closer to home on the all-weather too, with Nimr winning the Lincoln Trial at Wolverhampton. That bodes well for the stable’s runners at Doncaster over the weekend and they have several with good chances on Sunday's card. Natajack has his first start for the yard in the seven-furlong maiden after making a promising debut for Tom Dascombe when narrowly beaten at Newbury last September. George Bowen has gone well fresh in the past, and while he drew a blank last term, starts the current campaign well treated in the six-furlong handicap. Keep an eye, too, on the stable’s runners in the two mile and a quarter handicaps; Carnageo won two of his last three starts when last seen in the autumn, while Mushaireb (awarded a Newcastle maiden on his only two-year-old start) has got in towards the bottom of the handicap in the three-year-old contest.
Jeremy Scott didn’t have many runners in March but four wins from eleven runners, including a double at Exeter early in the month, signals a good spell for his Somerset stable. Jockey Matt Griffiths was on board each of those winners from eight rides for the yard during the month. That represented a change of fortune for the stable which had managed just one win previously since the turn of the year but plenty of second places. One of those March winners was Shoofly Milly who recorded a career-best effort when making all in a staying handicap hurdle at Exeter. She could bid to follow up in a similar event for mares at Kempton on Tuesday. Down at Newton Abbot on the same day, the stable has three entries to choose from in the two mile one furlong handicap hurdle, all of whom ran well when runner-up last time out. Although yet to win a race and none too reliable, Blue April appeals most from that trio having dropped a long way in the weights before his second at Exeter last time.
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