Sean Bowen Boxing Day rides blog: 'She will be competitive'

Coral ambassador and leading jockey Sean Bowen gives this thoughts on his seven rides on Boxing Day at Aintree.

She ran well first time up at Bangor back in October, but didn’t build on that at Warwick on her latest run. She travelled well into the straight but then stopped quickly. If she can put her last run behind her, she will be competitive in what looks to be an open contest to begin the card. 

He is a lovely big horse who has improved over fences. His Cheltenham run was good, but he probably didn’t want to make the running. Hopefully, we can get a lead this time and he should keep on progressing.

He is a horse we have always liked. I am very surprised he never won a Bumper. His jumping has always been good. He could not have been any more impressive in his two victories so far. We are obviously stepping up in class now, but he deserves his place in this Grade One field. I am excited to see what he can do at this level. 

This horse has always had ability, but he has been quirky. He is on a hat-trick here, but he has had a 7lb claimer on his back in those successes, so he does have quite a rise in the weights to defy this time. However, when a horse is in this sort of form, you can never discount them, so I certainly would not be ruling him out.