Arctic Bresil among 11 entries for the Tolworth Hurdle The Henry de Bromhead-trained Arctic Bresil is an interesting entry in what is shaping up to be a competitive renewal of the Unibet Tolworth Novices’ Hurdle at Sandown on Saturday. The now six-year-old gelding, who is bred along similar lines to last year's winner Constitution Hill being by Blue Bresil out of a King's Theatre mare, showed promise in two point-to-point starts for Sean Doyle before being sold for 305,000 pounds at Cheltenham just over a year ago. The Pete Davies-owned gelding made a winning start under rules when readily beating the odds-on Mercurey in a Cork maiden hurdle last month after which de Bromhead reported "he has a lot of pace and will stick to two miles". The unbeaten Luccia is set to take on the boys having already tasted Listed success at the Esher track when winning a bumper last March and added a further victory at that level with an impressive hurdling debut at Newbury in November. Authorised Speed has a course and distance win to his name and the Champion Bumper fifth looks a real classy operator for Gary Moore, while Tahmuras is two from two over obstacles and looks to give Paul Nicholls a third Grade 1 success in as many weeks. Colin Tizzard won the race in 2017, 2019 and 2020 and son Joe now looks to keep the Venn Farm record going by saddling Scarface, who is unbeaten in two outings over further this term. He has plenty of experience to his name and will look to bring his stamina to the fore dropping back in trip. L’Astroboy has only been sighted twice, but has created a taking impression each time and represents Evan Williams, while Jamie Snowden saddled the runner-up in Newbury’s Challow Hurdle on Saturday and attempts to go one better with Colonel Harry who was a clear-cut seven-length scorer at Sandown when last sighted. Ukantango (Olly Murphy), Blow Your Wad (Tom Lacey), Nemean Lion (Kerry Lee) and Joe Dadancer (Ben Pauling) complete the list of potential runners.
