Sidi Ismael slugs it out to land Lincolnshire National for David Pipe

Sunday: Market Rasen

Last season’s Scottish National and Ladbrokes Trophy winning rider Tom Scudamore could have another exciting staying prospect to ride after the David Pipe-trained Sidi Ismael extended his unbeaten record over fences in the feature Lincolnshire National.

The seven-year-old, who won on his stable debut for Pipe over hurdles under Scudamore in November, followed up his stylish win at Wetherby at the start of the month with a workmanlike performance to take the gruelling 3m3½f staying handicap in stamina-sapping soft ground.

Scudamore said to Racing TV: "He showed a lot of courage. I hadn’t had an awful lot to do with him between Lingfield and Wetherby but I schooled him over fences for the first time this week and I was very impressed by him.

"He's got options, a race like the Eider or we could go to Haydock. He handles the ground and obviously he'll be stepping out of this sort of grade but rightly so. There are few horses who stay as well as him, he's got a nice future."

Andrews strikes with spares

Lydford defied a late drift in the market in the 2m½f novices' hurdle to make it back-to-back wins over hurdles and kickstart a quickfire double on the card for Dan Skelton and Bridget Andrews.

Andrews, who had yet to ride the Gredley Family-owned four-year-old on the racecourse, repeated the feat with another first-time partner in the next, guiding Tokay Dokey to a first win over fences in the 2m1f handicap chase.

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