Kelso

The unexposed 6yo BROOKSIDE LA (nap) has made a good start to life in handicaps and is open to further improvement for Dan Skelton. He enjoys a healthy pull in the weights with his Haydock conqueror Judicial Deference and is taken to turn the tables. Judicial Deference has won here since Haydock and is very much respected, along with another progressive sort in Speiriuil, but perhaps the main threat to the selection will come from the 11yo The Navigator, a four-time course winner who could bounce back to form with the drying conditions in his favour.[Ben Hutton]