SPEED FIGURES Mike Francis takes his first look at the figures from the new jumps season

This month we turn to jumps racing and have included races from the start of October in our tables and analysis.. HURDLERSRUBAUD (142) stands proudly on top of the figures so far this season from his impressive victory in a Listed contest at Kempton on comeback. He went from the front there and didn’t see another rival. Paul Nicholls’ five-year-old has run again since then when taking a modest looking Elite Hurdle at Wincanton in equally impressive fashion. He only clocked 110 f...