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Crafty winner at Market Rasen
- Updated: December 1, 2016
News of the pick of the action from Market Rasen where Ryan Hatch was seen to good effect when galvanizing Crafty Roberto.
Ryan Hatch warmed up for his first ride on dual Grade One winner The New One in perfect fashion after galvanizing Crafty Roberto to glory in the 1stsecuritysolutions.co.uk Conditional Jockeys’ Handicap Hurdle at Market Rasen.
The Cheltenham Festival-winning rider, who will partner the Nigel Twiston-Davies-trained eight-year-old on his chasing debut at Exeter on Friday, moved on to the 16-winner mark for the campaign when steering Crafty Roberto to a first victory in more than three years.
Responding well to the application of blinkers the 8/1 shot snapped a losing run stretching back to February 2013 when flooring odds-on favourite Jaunty Inflight by a length and three-quarters.
Winning trainer Alex Hales said: “It has been a long time, but he likes it here as his last win was here three years ago.
“He had just been holding a bit back for himself, so we tried something different and decided to put the blinkers on and, to be …
