Nube Nega is a confident selection to win back-to-back Grade 2 Shloer Chases following his emphatic success in this race last season. The Dan Skelton-trained eight-year-old boasts an excellent record fresh, and with the drying ground a positive, he is taken to get the better of 2022 Sporting Life Arkle Challenge Trophy Novices’ Chase winner Edwardstone, who may benefit from this reappearance.

Does He Know looks capable of a forward showing despite a fall on seasonal debut at Kelso. He had received wind surgery prior to a first fence mishap that day, with the promise of improvement entering a second handicap over fences. The Grade 2-winning novice chaser could defy a mark of 152 in a competitive affair.

Current Mood (2.55) could be a spot of each-way value in the prestigious Greatwood Handicap Hurdle. She wound up for this with an eyecatching third on seasonal bow at Ffos Las. A thoroughly unexposed handicapper, Evan Williams’ representative boasts solid course form in Graded company, over longer distances. She could benefit from an aggressive front-running ride dropping in trip.

A reappearance sixth at Warwick may not have looked positive but Sallyann is expected to improve sharply entering a first handicap. She is related to winners who excelled over this sort of distance, which bodes well raised in journey this time around. She could go well from a low handicap hurdle mark of 92.