KEITH REVELEY'S decision to try Welcome To Unos (3.40) over three miles for the first time could help pep up the nine-year-old, having flopped at Wincanton last time out.

Following what was an uncharacteristically lacklustre effort, Welcome To Unos (3.40) now heads to Stratford for the feature race, the £20,000 Irish Day Handicap Chase.

Reveley's nine-year-old has already scored at the track in the days when he was in the care of Martin Pipe, gaining invaluable local knowledge that's sure to stand the selection in good stead.

Prior to the Wincanton flop, Welcome To Unos had won three from four.

Such scintillating form warrants the utmost respect, even though it's a wide-open contest.

Arch rivals Richard Johnson and Tony McCoy lock horns in the opening Juvenile Novices Hurdle, an event in which their respective mounts, Opera de Coeur and Prize Fighter, could dominate the closing stages.

Prize Fighter is by far and away the more experienced of the two, however Opera de Couer is still fancied to successfully defend his 100 per cent record following a searing Warwick success 17 days ago.

Charlie Studd is making quite a name for himself on the West Country jumps circuit, especially when partnering horses such as the long-standing maiden Sitting Duck for his boss, Brendan Powell.

It'll be the fourteenth time of asking for Sitting Duck, who deserves better luck, having hit both uprights and the crossbar by finishing second on no fewer than three of his latest six starts.

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