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- Updated: November 22, 2016
Trainer Simon West is working back from the RSA Chase with Maximiser ahead of his comeback over hurdles this weekend.
The lightly-raced eight-year-old holds entries in the feature £50,000 Grade Two bet365 Long Distance Hurdle (2.10pm, 3m 52y) on Friday, November 25 and the £35,000 bet365 Handicap Hurdle (2.05pm, 2m 4f 118y) the following afternoon.
Maximiser has had just five starts under Rules since finishing eighth behind Faugheen in a Punchestown bumper in May, 2013, and endured another interrupted campaign last season after falling in the G2 Fuller’s London Pride Novices’ Chase at the 2015 bet365 Festival.
His only subsequent …