Lady Willa to resurface in the Bob Brown Memorial Handicap Chase at Huntingdon on 14th March
The Class 5 Bob Brown Memorial Handicap Chase is scheduled for Wednesday, 14th March at Huntingdon over two miles and 110 yards. The race has a lineup of seven five-year and older thoroughbreds while the purse for the race is £1, 949.
The strongest contender to race through the track distance today is Lady Willa, Footstepsinthesand’s five-year-old bay mare out of mare Change Partners. She has settled in the 2012 season by already racing four times, winning and setting second once while
missing out on the remaining starts.
Her seasonal debut was in the Happy 50th Birthday Brett Malyon Novices’ Handicap Chase on 17th January at Folkestone over two miles, where she ended miserably, finishing the race in the end on the track of five by missing on 24 lengths.
Lady Willa did improve drastically in her next start in the At The Races Sky 415 Novices’ Handicap Chase on 30th January at Plumpton over two miles and a furlong. She finished second while riding with Tommy Phelan and missing victory by a narrow
shoulder’s margin from the winner Whitcombe Spirit who was paired up with Mattie Batchelor for the race.
Improvising further and not compromising with her success rate, Lady Willa won the Smith & Williamson Handicap Chase on 25th February at Chepstow over two miles and half a furlong. She was yet again paired with Tommy Phelan.
This time Mattie Batchelor was riding the runner up of the race, Kinkeel who was soon joined by the 5/2 favourite of the race, Hector’s House.
However her fourth attempt of the season came as a sheer disappointment because she finished fourth in the Plumpton Annual Members Handicap Chase on 12th March at Plumpton over two miles and a furlong.
The race was won by Nozic while Barton Cliché was the runner up and finishing third behind the winner was Russian Conquest.
The 13/8 favourite of the race, Marleno, was the last entry to leave the field.
Stumbling over an unfortunate finishing does not indicate Lady Willa’s lack of potential to get hold of the chance that she is being exposed to through the fifth outing of the new season.
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