Rumbury Grey collides with Galway Jack in the Mallard Pawnbrokers Hunters’ Chase at Leicester on 9th March
The Class 3 Mallard Pawnbrokers Hunters’ Chase has attracted a lineup of eight, six-year-old and above thoroughbreds. It will be staged at Leicester over two miles, seven furlongs and 110 yards on Friday, 9th March. The race carries a purse worth
£7, 891.
Among the lineup, the entry who has won at Leicester most recently is Rumbury Grey, Overbury’s nine-year-old grey gelding out of mare Polly Buckrum.
Rumbury Grey won the d**k Saunders Novices’ Hunters’ Chase at Leicester over two miles and four and a half furlong on 16th February. He won from the 4/5 favourite runner up of the race, Galway Jack, by a highly insignificant margin of a neck’s
difference.
Parking third behind the winner was Start Royal.
Today will be Rumbury Grey’s second start of the new season and his chances of winning are almost inevitable due to the impressive performance that he had put up in the seasonal debut. He will encounter Galway Jack yet again today.
Galway Jack is Witness Box’s seven-year-old bay gelding out of mare Cooldalus. He has ventured out during the new season twice and at both the events he was entered as the favourite.
Galway Jack’s seasonal debut was in the Grafton Hunters’ Chase on 22nd January at Towcester over two miles and six furlongs. The 85/40 favourite of the race was positioned fourth on the field of seventeen while the race was won by Lorikarad. The
runner up of the race was Mister Teddy.
The seven-year-old improved drastically by the time he became part of the lineup of the d**k Saunders Novices’ Hunters’ Chase on 16th February at Leicester over two miles and four and a half furlongs.
From the fourth position in the seasonal debut, Galway Jack, the 4/5 favourite, notched up to the runner up’s position.
Galway Jack is stepping into the third outing of the new season and has only improved during the course of the two races which can easily entitle him for being entered as a favourite yet again.
On the other hand, Rumbury Grey might just be in the mood to credit the next attempt against his name as a victory. What changes will today’s race incorporate in their record will unfold soon.
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