Longer trips should give Bullets more firepower

7g Westerner - Kenza Du Berlais
Colm Donlon, Adrian Doyle, Luise Scott-MacDonald and Chris Barber
P309/81
RPR 152h 153c OR 140h 148c
Missed last season with a tendon injury. He’d won the Paddy Power Gold Cup as a five-year-old and paid for it, looking a few pounds too high afterwards. I thought he ran a good race over hurdles on his return last month but the handicapper dropped him 3lb. That left him on a good mark which he took advantage of at Aintree on Saturday. I have my eye on the Fixed Brush Hurdle at Haydock this month.

Capeland
4g Poliglote - Neiland
Kathy Stuart
11-31
RPR 119h OR 122h
Lovely individual. You didn’t see the best of him when he got off the mark over hurdles at Newton Abbot; he had a nightmare journey, being held up by an accident on the motorway, and got in a right old stress. I’m in no hurry to run him again, but the EBF Final at Sandown in the spring might suit. A future chaser so needs to be looked after.

Capitaine
4g Montmartre - Patte De Velour
Martin Broughton and Friends 2
21-1
RPR 126b
Gorgeous individual and I’ve liked him from day one. Has always shown us plenty at home, so I was staggered when he got beat first time. But he’d been a bit green and I probably hadn’t been hard enough on him. We brought him back in the spring and he was very impressive in a Wincanton bumper. He had a simple task when we brought him back there for his hurdling debut on Saturday. We’ll take it quietly for the time being and teach him to relax a bit more but I hope he develops into one of our leading novices.