Windsor tips: Jamie Lynch’s five to follow when Jumps races return | Racing news

And so you are back, reformed workplace. ARC just woke up with memories of how you used to look at obstacle courses.

And so they tried it with some games, amendments made by Charlie Rees. Because we are good to go this Sunday, Windsor returns with bonhomie.

The frivolity over, let’s get down to the more serious business of finding five high-interest horses on the card and the reasons why.

Helnwein

12.45 Fitzdares Royal Windsor Novices’ Limited Handicap Chase

Alan King, who sent out three winners over the old jumps course at Windsor in his early days as a trainer, is stoking his National Hunt fire this season on the back of all the significant metrics rising, with the strike rate improving to 18% (highest since 2018/19) and in-form completion ratio of 63%, the fifth best of any British yard so far this campaign.

One of the brightest sparks at Barbury Castle, Helnwein finished last season by beating Be Aware in the valuable Novice Final at Sandown and made a particularly positive start over fences at Warwick when clear (in a fast ) with the Telepathique in form and vol. , which was subsequently second at Listed level. It’s hard to fathom the handicapper raising him just 1lb for this, generous to say the least, and Helnwein has much more improvement in him, from the family of 1996 Chaser champion Klairon Davis.

Tanganyika

1.55 Fitzdares Thames Handicap Chase

The last time there were jumps races at Windsor, on 16 December 2005, when Tony Blair was prime minister, outgoing BHB chairman Peter Savill had announced that the way forward was to increase the party list ( up to 1500 meetings), Jordan and Peter Andre had just gotten married. , and Venetia Williams had a winner on the cards with Jolly Boy, who was completing a five-day timing of 18 with Sam Thomas. At least Venice is still going strong!

Tanganyika hardly looked natural on his first pass over fences, but the low lights were at both ends of the race, early as a novice and from the last when tired, and in between he looked suitably athletic and confident, everything while riding less aggressively than usual to compensate. Charlie Deutsch is back on board at Windsor with what looks to be an easier 0-130 than Bangor, landed by Jagwar with the next winners in second and fourth, and Tanganyika is now back to her best trip of 3m, in a race that looks his to dominate

Little Soiree

2.30 Fitzdares Windsor Castle Mares’ Handicap Hurdle

Which triple Grade One winner was the only horse to ever run over the Windsor Jumps for Willie Mullins? The answer to that impossible question is Rule Supreme, who was a close third to Baracouda and Crystal D’Ainay in the relocated Long Walk in 2004. Little Soiree was positive when runner-up in Willie Mullins’ two starts, and she is still a maiden at two years, two trainers and seven starts, but there are reasons to rate her as a live stop for the mares’ handicap. obstacle

Firstly, this will be her handicap debut, a much better medium for her, especially compared to her overmatched Newbury comeback in listed company, where she traveled and jumped smoothly until she inevitably went pass third-last and was spared a tough race afterwards. . And then there is her British debut in March, in a novel at Kempton, for which she was booked for third (in Wyenot of 129) before crashing in the last, a flash of shape that makes his brand of 105 look attractive. Finally, Chris Gordon is 27% (3/11) in December, compared to 10% in the previous two months combined, representing a stable that has really turned.

Duhallow Tommy

3.05 Fitzdares Telephone Betting Handicap Chase

The hidden Hasthing, the returning Reilly and the abstract Zertakt make this a headache of a handicap, but all the more reason to seek solace in the solid Duhallow Tommy, who is still looking up. Trivially, he has been made favorite in all six starts over fences, winning the first three and ran even better when behind Rath Gaul Hill at Newbury in March.

Although third best in his comeback, the pair he faced at Fontwell – Lord Of Cheshire and Jupiter Du Gite – were both rated in the mid-120s and therefore overqualified for this, and was measured against them for 95% of the runs. Yes, one of the darker horses may prove too hot to handle, and the market will be significant in that regard, but Duhallow Tommy is both a strong traveler and a fluid jumper, useful assets if Windsor is the track that rewards the rhythm we think it will be.

lover

3.40 Fitzdares Windsor Christmas Handicap Hurdle

Given that the last big race on the last big day of jumps racing at Windsor in 2005 was won by The Listener, in Robert Alner’s Grade 2 Novice Chase, there would be some relevance and parallel if his son-in-law Robert Walford managed to get on the scoreboard at the grand reopening, and he could with Loverdose.

A rapid riser, Loverdose won his first two handicaps, and it would have been three at Chepstow last month but for a momentum-halting mistake at the penultimate, although he beat 15 of his 16 rivals after racing late . He’s up another 7lb to a mark of 98, but that shouldn’t stop Loverdose given the way he trained at Chepstow, and it’s a standing recommendation that his half-brother was second in a Galway Hurdle and a Melbourne Cup (hint: of course he was trained by Willie Mullins).

Watch Windsor this Sunday 15th December live on Sky Sports Racing