FERDY MURPHY’S The Hollinwell should relish the demanding conditions at Hexham in the Weatherbys Bloodstock Insurance Novices’ Chase.

This imposing six-year-old, a full-brother to the useful Sherwoods Folly, struggled to make his mark over hurdles but that did not stop him running some decent races in defeat.

None more so than at Doncaster where he was narrowly beaten by Alan King’s Thetwincamdrift, who was subsequently not disgraced at the Cheltenham Festival.

He was also less than six lengths behind Knockara Beau in a bumper at Aintree and both Murphy and rider Graham Lee are excited about him tackling fences.

Howard Johnson’s latest bigmoney purchase, Sitting Tennant, makes his debut for the stable in division one of the Durham CCC County Champions Again Novices’ Hurdle.

Winner of a Grade Two bumper at Aintree for Kate Walton, owner Graham Wylie forked out 160,000 guineas for him and races like this should be a formality.

Cool Friend impressed when scoring at Exeter last month and can carry on the good work in the John Smith’s Extra Smooth Mares’ Beginners’ Chase at Fontwell.

Godolphin will soon be heading back to their Dubai base for the winter break but they are bowing out of the European campaign in a blaze of glory.

Saeed bin Suroor boasts an excellent strike-rate at present, with well over 20 winners to his credit in the last 14 days, and he can further add to his tally at Southwell and Wolverhampton.

The Godolphin team can make it a double in Nottinghamshire, with Con Artist firstly an interesting debutant in the betdaq.co.uk Maiden Stakes.

A half brother to a decent German runner, Con Artist cost 75,000 guineas at the sales in April and looks a likely juvenile type on breeding.

Tertiary’s claims in the Southwell Golf Club Junior Members Nursery are much easier to substantiate following a game victory at Brighton on his first racecourse start.

The Singspiel colt went off at generous odds on that occasion but looked much better than the head margin would suggest as he was eased in the closing stages before nearly getting caught out.

He sticks to a mile again this time and the narrow verdict of his debut win means Tertiary comes into this event on a lenient mark.