Lucky 15 Tips: Travelling Soldier can score for Murphy at Uttoxeter

Lots of the Sunday focus will be on the Arc Day action over at ParisLongchamp but there is plenty of UK and Irish action to take in as well, with four scheduled meetings.

With the winter closing in, it's no great shock to find all four meetings go over jumps as the National Hunt season gathers pace. They race at Uttoxeter, Kelso and Killarney over jumps while it is a mixed card at Tipperary and we've picked out a Lucky15 selection for Sunday's racing across Britain and Ireland. Check out my Lucky 15 tips below.

14:15 Killarney – Say It So @ 7/1

Trainer Eric McNamara enjoyed a stellar Harvest Festival at Listowel recently and the Limerick-based handler remains in red-hot form, with a strike rate of 26 per cent across recent weeks.

SAY IT SO was only third at Listowel (2m, soft) having been sent off favourite in a contest in which stablemate Ifitwasme cruised to victory under claiming rider Calum Hogan.

He reverts to Say It So now, taking off his full 7lb allowance, and this Raven's Pass gelding can get back to winning ways over this slightly longer trip.

14:25 Uttoxeter – Travelling Soldier @ 3/1

Ollie Murphy is the leading handler at Uttoxeter across the last five seasons with an impressive 45 winners at a 22 per cent strike rate showing a level stakes profit of +18.25.

The Warren Chase Stables handler can bag another winner at the midlands venue via TRAVELLING SOLDIER in the Century Racing Club Maiden Hurdle with Sean Bowen on board.

The Mahler gelding was well held on his introduction in a bumper at Newcastle on heavy ground in April but improved once going over hurdles at Perth (2m, good to soft) the following month as he took second spot behind the Lucinda Russell-trained winner Imaginarium.

He wasn't totally fluent there but should have learned plenty from the experience and can go one better on his return from a summer off with plenty more schooling likely to have been done.

15:05 Tipperary – Gaucher @ 5/2

The Grade 3 Novice Hurdle on the card at Tipperary is a six-runner affair and champion trainer Willie Mullins accounts for two of them in Chart Topper and GAUCHER.

The former won a Downpatrick maiden hurdle (2m1½f, good) in August by 25 lengths but Paul Townend sticks with the latter despite successive defeats for the Frankel gelding.

Galway didn't appear to suit him in July and he was second behind an unbeaten hurdler in Zariygann at Listowel last month. He needs to improve a touch in the jumping department but could be hard to topple if he does.

15:15 Kelso – Do No Wrong @ 5/2

Trainer Justin Landy has a leading contender in the Parks UK Handicap Chase at Kelso in the form of DO NO WRONG under Callum Bewley.

The eight-year-old has a really decent profile over fences, with four wins and three placed efforts from a dozen outings.

Three of those wins have come at trips of three miles and just beyond and he just didn't have the pace to pick up the front two when finishing a length-and-a-quarter third here over 2m5½f on good ground last month.

He's only rated 1lb higher now and should have a major say on his first crack at this increased trip.

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