Tempestatefloresco tumble denies punters a thriller

You do not always need big fields to make exciting races, as the novice chase at Southwell so nearly showed. The Tourard Man and Tempestatefloresco were in the early throes of a tremendous battle in a three-runner novice chase, only for the selection to crash out at the second-last when virtually upsides. He had traded at a low of 1.75 in-running. The winner, ultimately successful at 8-13, went as high as 2.4.

The 1m2f fillies' handicap at Bath was a changeable affair, to say the least. Besides winner Sunscape, who hit an in-running high of 10, the second, third and fourth all traded at 2.68 or shorter for the win. Runner-up Miss Minuty was matched at 1.19.

The following handicap over the same trip that followed was more open beforehand, with the winner Eugenic sent off one of the four 9-2 co-favourites in a field of nine. He went 42 in running, but it was hardly carnage in behind: only runner-up Tamujin (1.57) traded at lower than 3.8.