Grade Two Select Hurdle Guide 2022

Perhaps a shade disappointing recently, and she’s without a win in four starts. She ran arguably her best race in defeat this year at around this trip at Cheltenham when a neck second to Martello Sky.

I don’t think anyone is totally sure what her true trip is, but she certainly has lots of class. Inconsistent, but will get a handy allowance and she’s hard to entirely rule out.

Fusil Raffles was a fortunate winner of the Charlie Hall at the expense of Shan Blue in October, though he’s failed to win since.

Back hurdling today must be a question mark, as he’s not raced over these obstacles since March 2020.

He is a very good horse on his day but he does prove a shade frustrating more often than not, and reverting back to hurdles isn’t an obvious positive.

Unbeaten on his last two over hurdles in March/April of 2021, though he’s done his racing on the flat in his last three starts and he’s without a run since October of last year.

The return to hurdling looks a plus and he has ran well at the course. He’s a fascinating runner.

Ran a nice race when competition in the G1 Aintree Hurdle over 2m4, when finishing an albeit, distant third to Epatante and Monmiral.

He was perhaps also flattered by the non-completion of three of the seven runners. He’s hard to get a hold of, he’s often threatened to win, without actually winning – so he’s not an easy horse to weigh up.

Though  I do think they’ve found his correct trip now so he’s hard to confidently rule out.