MARTIN PIPE is set for another bumper haul today with good prospects of as many as six winners across the cards at Newbury and Bangor.
White Sea, a leading Triumph Hurdle hope, can enhance her Cheltenham prospects by winning the opening Stroud Green Juvenile Novices' Hurdle at Newbury.
The four year old, a fair sort on the Flat when trained by Paul Cole, made an impressive hurdling debut over this course and distance in November when beating Shooting Light five lengths.
What is most interesting, however, is the way the form has been franked since.
Runner up Shooting Light trounced a strong field in last month's Grade Two Finesse Hurdle at Cheltenham, third placed Summer Spell won a hot looking Kempton hurdle and fifth placed Le Teteu saw off older rivals in Doncaster's Rossington Main Hurdle.
Pipe himself runs Europe, a French import, in the following Aldermaston Novices' Chase, and judged by the way he coasted in at Stratford last week he should follow up.
And the Wellington trainer can round off a good day at Newbury with General Mouktar, who has the turn of foot to beat some exposed rivals in the Levy Board Handicap Hurdle.
