Brendan Powell Saturday rides blog: 'On his Doncaster run he has a major chance'

Brendan Powell has three rides at Newbury on Saturday, February 7, 2026. The Coral ambassador previews them all in his latest blog.

• Typhoon Warrior - Newbury - 1.00 race odds

• Lanesborough - Newbury - 3.20 race odds

• No Way Jay - Newbury - 4.30 race odds

Newbury 1.00 – Typhoon Warrior

After a brilliant trip to Musselburgh last weekend, I’m staying a lot closer to home this Saturday, with three rides at Newbury.  The first of them is for Dan Skelton, and it’s obviously great to pick up a ride for the leading trainer.  

Typhoon Warrior hasn’t run on ground this soft yet, but he finished a good third at Market Rasen on his hurdling debut last month, and I’m sure he’ll improve for that experience.  He’s in the right hands to make up into a very nice young horse, and we’ll learn a lot more about him in what looks a decent race.

Newbury 3.20 – Lanesborough

Another lovely spare ride to pick up, for another in-form trainer, Ben Pauling. Lanesborough has been really progressive this season, winning impressively at Doncaster two runs ago, and at first glance I thought maybe he didn’t enjoy the step up in trip to 2m 5f in the Coral Lanzarote last time, but having spoken to Ben Jones [regular jockey] at Ludlow this week, he said the horse just didn’t travel as well as he can early on that day, so maybe he just had a bit of an off-day. 

His performance at Doncaster earned him a ratings hike of 14 pounds, so if he can return to that form here, and he’s got form on testing ground so won’t mind that, he should go well in what doesn’t look the strongest renewal of this race with the top weight rated just 138.

Newbury 4.30 - No Way Jay

I haven’t ridden No Way Jay on the track yet, as I rode The Walk, also trained by Joe [Tizzard] at Ascot last time, and Freddie [Gingell] also rode him when he won his debut at Wincanton, but he’s a young horse we like a lot.  That Ascot bumper was one of the best bumpers run so far this season, so to finish fourth was a really good run.  He stays well so he should get through testing ground OK, and there’s no reason he can’t go close.

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