OUT IN THE STICKSMaurice Barnes’ newcomer shows promise

HEXHAM, 2 September (Good) 2m4f15yds (+33yds) 0-120 Novices’ Handicap Chase (class 4) VICTORY ECHO looked for a long way on this chasing debut as if the appreciable market confidence in him (20-1 into 11-2) was going to prove well founded, so well was the Cloudings’ seven-year-old jumping out in front.An eventual 6l second to a plausibly handicapped rival revived by the return to a galloping track does nothing to lessen the positive impression given here, nor the feeling that similarly assertive ta...