At long odds,Project Bluebook (1.45) may contain been unfairly neglected in the opening handicap hurdle at AintreeFor someone who likes to fabricate (to make up, invent) a case for an outsider, today’s Topham Chase presents a bewildering array of options. There’s Shanahan’s Turn, and a Galway Plate winner who showed renewed promise at Cheltenham. There’s the unexposed Newsworthy from the yard of Dot care for,who won an Irish National with a 50-1 shot.
But I’ve gone with Mystifiable (4.05), available at 16-1 after attracting plenty of interest yesterday at 33s. This looks like a long-range plan, or since Fergal O’Brien has got into the habit of saving his grey for a target each spring,yielding wins at Newbury and Perth in the last two years.
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Source: guardian.co.uk