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Blaklion tops Wetherby hopefuls
- Updated: December 20, 2016
Blaklion heads 23 entries for the 188Bet Rowland Meyrick Handicap Chase at Wetherby on Boxing Day.
The Yorkshire Christmas Meeting is one of the highlights of Wetherby’s season and the two-day fixture gets under way on Monday with a cracking seven-race card headlined by the Grade Three event.
Run over three miles, the £40,000 race boasts a tremendous roll of honour, with future Cheltenham Gold Cup winners Forgive ‘n Forget and The Thinker the standout winners, and has attracted some high-class performers, headed by last season’s RSA Chase hero Blaklion for Nigel Twiston-Davies
Champion trainer Paul Nicholls has made three entries – the 2016 Scottish Grand National hero Vicente, Vivaldi Collonges and Virak.
Northern Ireland-based handler Stuart Crawford has entered Fine Rightly. The eight-year-old won a novices’ hurdle over two and a half miles at Wetherby in 2014 and is a five-time winner over fences, including twice at Grade Three …
