Elegant Olive to get experience working for her in the 32Redpoker.Com Handicap Hurdle at Huntingdon on 14th March
The Class 4 32Redpoker.Com Handicap Hurdle will get hosted by Huntingdon on Wednesday, 14th March over three miles and two furlongs. The race that is open for participation by four-year and older thoroughbreds has assembled a lineup of twelve runners while the purse for the race is worth £2, 534.
An entry who has been exposed to Huntingdon the most as compared to the rest competing today is Elegant Olive, Alflora’s nine-year-old bay mare out of mare Strong Cloth. She exited the previous season by posting a victory at Huntingdon and then penetrated into the new season by being part of the lineup that was racing at Huntingdon.
Elegant Olive won the Huntingdon Handicap Hurdle on 26th December 2011 at Huntingdon over two miles and five and a half furlong. She was ridden by Killian Moore and led the track of eleven by thirteen lengths.
Finishing the closest to the winner was Spanish Cruise with Kielan Woods, they were soon joined by Rebel High on the other end of the wire. The 5/2 favourite of the race, Cool Steel, was positioned fourth.
This was Elegant Olive’s final race of 2011.
On 4th March, she was one of the nine contesting for the Barratt New Homes At Genesis UK Handicap Hurdle (Betfair Hurdle Series Qualifier) at Huntingdon over two miles and five and a half furlong.
She grew weak during the course of the race and was positioned third behind the winner Ministerofinterior and the runner up Powerful Ambition. The 100/30 favourite, Cold Knight was pulled up from the race after getting weak.
The distance today is more than what she has raced through in the two races but the experience on the racecourse should suffice to get her claiming the race.
Burnthill and More Equity will bring back the famous rivalry to the track today. The two had collided before on 16th March 2011 in the Black Bull Sawston Dean’s Final Freedom Handicap Hurdle at Huntingdon over three miles and two furlongs.
Burnthill was the winner while More Equity stationed right next to him, qualifying as the runner up.
How will the positions switch this time around and which other entries might give the two a hard time on the track, will get sorted out soon.
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