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A REALLY superb afternoon of jump racing across several cards today and I will deal with the big races of the afternoon shortly, but let’s start with the best bet on Saturday, which comes at Aintree in the Handicap Chase at 1.32 in the form of the mud-loving NO RISK DES FLOS (nap).

With very heavy rain forecast throughout yesterday and indeed today it could well be that the meeting becomes in jeopardy — let’s hope not. The selection has finally been given a chance by the handicapper to return to some kind of form having been rated as high as 137 this time last year and now set to run off a mark of just 126.

That rating was obviously too high for him to show his best form, but there are now a number of factors in his favour. First, despite being nine-year-old going on 10, he is still lightly raced and is only set to start in his 13^th chase start, having won previously off ratings of 127 and 134. Give in the ground and indeed plenty of it is no problem for him, plus he has the added bonus of the brilliant Sean Bowen on board.