Midlands Grand National Young Dev Plan
Racing never stops and it’s straight into a premier raceday meeting at Uttoxeter this afternoon.
The Midlands National is always exciting and great to see a proper prize of £84,405 to the winner. The Irish won it with Screaming Colours in 2022 and have two challengers today.
Young Dev is preferred to the inform mare My Silver Lining who might not last home. This Midlands National is going to be a serious test of stamina running four and a quarter mile on heavy ground. Mr Incredible is top weight which makes life difficult for that horse trained by Willie Mullins. Young Dev retains his form at ten years of age. He has run well at Navan on testing ground in the past and sure enough popped up to win there again in February. That win came over three miles on heavy off an Irish rating of 113.
Young Dev unseated at the Dublin Racing Festival and was given a nice confidence booster for this race with a spin around Limerick last weekend over a trip too short. If we look back into his past form, we find that Young Dev finished second in this race beyond Screaming Colours in 2022 when rated as high as 133. The UK handicapper has him rated 124 which is workable for trainer Denis Hogan. Young Dev carries a lovely low weight of 10-2 and less now thanks to his jockey Daniel King claiming off a further 3lbs.
Uttoxeter 3:00
1 point each way Young Dev 10/1 generally, 4 places.
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