Wincanton preview: Badger Ales Trophy (14.05)

David Metcalf | November 6, 2015

Doing Fine shaped with bags of promise on seasonal reappearance and looks the answer to the feature race at Wincanton, the Badgers Ales Trophy (14.05).

The Rebecca Curtis trained gelding scored on debut over fences at Ffos Las last season when showing a good attitude to beat Carole’s Destrier by a neck off a mark of 126.

Doing Fine stayed on strongly having been two lengths down jumping the last to get up in the shadow of the post, and the runner-up is a useful sort now rated 149.

The pair pulled 28 lengths clear of the third home Big Casino who is now rated 130, and that gives the form a solid looks and suggests Doing Fine’s current mark of 132 is very exploitable.

Punters should be Doing Fine

Doing Fine went to finish an excellent second to Cogry at Warwick, and was also far from disgraced when eighth of 17 to Cause Of Causes in the National Hunt Chase at the Cheltenham Festival off his current mark.

The seven-year-old then failed to sparkle on his final start of the campaign when well-beaten at the Punchestown Festival, but that may well have been one run too many and there was plenty to like about Doing Fine’s comeback run at Chepstow last month.

Doing Fine looked in need of the run beforehand, but after losing his place following a mistake at the fourth kept on really well in the closing stages to finish a 4 3/4 length third of 12 to Drop Out Joe.