MADDY PLAYLE

1 Thunder Rock 2 Balco Coastal 3 Monmiral

Presuming Gordon Elliott doesn’t send Gerri Colombe over, this race should see a rematch between Monmiral and Thunder Rock, the second and third from the Dipper at Cheltenham on New Year’s Day. I expect Olly Murphy’s charge will reverse the form here as he is capable of better than what he showed before, with Balco Coastal his biggest challenger.