ITV Racing frontman Ed Chamberlin selects his Ten To Follow
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I cannot believe I am making a list of ten horses for the season and not including my favourite horse in training Tiger Roll, but the news he will be out until February made it impossible to include him.
Instead I will kick things off with Allaho who is a horse I love. Ruby Walsh was very keen on him for the Albert Bartlett last year and he pulled like a train and still finished third and then he was second at Punchestown when he might not have got home. He's every inch a chaser and a beautiful looking horse.
Next is Fakir D'Oudairies, who I thought produced the best novice chasing performance I've seen so far this season. I love the way he devoured his fences at Navan.
I'm going to keep faith with Laurina. She disappointed in the Champion Hurdle but perhaps she's not as fast as we thought she was and I'm hoping we see her over a trip this year.
A horse I love this season is Brian Ellison's Windsor Avenue. He's looked a gorgeous horse and hopefully they'll go for something like the Dipper - there are lots of nice races to be won with him.
I'll also stick with Fusil Raffles. He wasn't impressive at Wincanton the other day but the Munir and Souede team clearly think a lot of him and I think we'll see a better performance next time.
Those Champion Hurdle trials look very winnable and are worth a lot of points so for that reason I'll also put in Buveur D'Air as you would think they will be kept apart.
I think you need to stick Altior in. He's a winning machine and it would be leaving a lot of points on the table to miss him out. Next I'll go for Presenting Percy. Everything went wrong before and during the Gold Cup last year and I think he's worth another chance.
Lostintranslation won the Betfair Chase on Saturday and could go on to be a King George and Gold Cup horse, and you can't really leave out Paisley Park either.
Ed Chamberlin's Ten To Follow
Allaho
Altior
Buveur D'Air
Fakir D'Oudairies
Fusil Raffles
Laurina
Lostintranslation
Paisley Park
Presenting Percy
Windsor Avenue
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