Fact ready to make it matter with this step up in distance

The step up in trip to three miles makes stamina-packed Fact Of The Matter of considerable interest in Exeter’s 188bet.co.uk Handicap Chase (3.10) off bottom weight.

Jamie Snowden's Brian Boru gelding, who was bought for £42,000 a couple of years ago, has always looked the type to thrive in staying chases and now gets his first opportunity to do so since landing an Irish point-to-point at the beginning of his career.

Winner of a 2m Chepstow bumper last September, where he had the now 126-rated Petethepear eight and a half lengths back in third, Fact Of The Matter subsequently failed to score in three starts over hurdles but made a winning debut over fences in a 2m4f Worcester novices' handicap chase last month.