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Mercedes-Benz Of Chichester Maiden Hurdle (GBB Race)

Fontwell · Wed 8th Apr 2026 · 13:30
📏 2m3f29y 🏷️ Class Class 4 🌿 Good To Soft 🏟️ Turf 💰 £5,446 🐎 Hurdle
2nd
Testing Patience
10/1
Caoilin Quinn
1st
Hardly Surprising
8/11F
Bryan Carver
3rd
Cluain Chormaic
9/4
Tom Cannon
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Class
Class 4
📏
Distance
2m3f29y
🌿
Going
Good To Soft
🏟️
Surface
Turf
💰
Prize
£5,446
🐎
Runners
24
🔖
Type
Hurdle
📊 Betting Forecast
2/1 Dropematthestation, 9/4 Hardly Surprising, 7/2 Cluain Chormaic, 9/2 Jetaway Holiday, 14/1 Style De Folie, Cockney Cleopatra, 33/1 Testing Patience, 50/1 Graeme The Grey, Knight Templar, Maximum Benefit, 66/1 Mega Etoile, 200/1 Snowski, Porridge
Pos Horse / Form Age/Wgt Jockey / Trainer OR Odds
🥉 3rd
Cluain Chormaic Form: 77532
5y
159 lbs 		Tom Cannon
Karen Jewell 		115 9/4
10
Laios Tresor Form: 4-8
5y
159 lbs
Georgie Howell 		- –
🥈 2nd
Testing Patience Form: 3834
6y
159 lbs 		Caoilin Quinn
Gary & Josh Moore 		- 10/1
PU
Cockney Cleopatra Form: F55
5y
152 lbs 		Richie McLernon
Jim & Suzi Best 		- 28/1
11
Laurier Des Obeaux Form: 4-354
5y
159 lbs 		Caoilin Quinn
Gary & Josh Moore 		105 –
12
Lirone Du Seuil Form: 6/2-84
5y
159 lbs
Dan Skelton 		113 –
4
Porridge Form: 7-PPPP
6y
152 lbs 		Oscar Palmer(7)
Tracey Leeson 		51 250/1
8
Mega Etoile Form: 40
4y
142 lbs 		Robert Dunne
Henrietta C Knight 		- 80/1
14
On The Bayou Form: 1/525
6y
159 lbs 		Bryan Carver
Harry Fry 		- –
15
Rebel Tribesman Form: 3-12
5y
159 lbs
Jamie Snowden 		- –
19
Unknown Stranger Form: P-44
5y
159 lbs 		Richie McLernon
Jim & Suzi Best 		- –
2
Dropematthestation Form: 1-4433
6y
159 lbs 		Ben Jones
Ben Pauling 		114 –
21
Onefournine Form: 1-220
6y
152 lbs
Jonjo & A.J. O'Neill 		110 –
23
Flash Man Form: 73
4y
149 lbs
Toby Lawes 		- –
3
Emerald Breeze Form: 44-323
6y
159 lbs
Dominic Elsworth 		113 –
6
Graeme The Grey Form: 24-34
6y
159 lbs 		Tabitha Worsley
Nick Gifford 		- 50/1
🥇 1st
Hardly Surprising Form: 1-533
5y
159 lbs 		Bryan Carver
Harry Fry 		117 8/11F
5
Grand Teton Form: 5
5y
159 lbs
Nicky Henderson 		- –
5
Jetaway Holiday Form: 15
5y
159 lbs 		Nico de Boinville
Nicky Henderson 		- 17/2
7
Knight Templar Form: 3/F-08
6y
159 lbs 		Harry Bannister
Richard J Bandey 		- 28/1
7
Into The Blue Form: –
6y
159 lbs
Nicky Henderson 		- –
11
Maximum Benefit Form: 56045
5y
159 lbs 		Finn Lambert(3)
Jo Davis 		- 33/1
9
Snowski Form: P
5y
159 lbs 		Marc Goldstein
Karen Jewell 		- 250/1
10
Style De Folie Form: 5
5y
159 lbs 		Joe Anderson(3)
Jamie Snowden 		- 50/1
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RACING POST VERDICT

Preference is for CLUAIN CHORMAIC, who has been placed in big fields on his last two appearances.

Racing Post Pick
Cluain Chormaic