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NO ROCKET YET BUT MOON UP: Jeremy Grayson keeps on track with the action around the countryside

DONCASTER, December 12 (Good to soft, soft in places)
2m7f214yds Novices’ Chase (class 3)
The “Chasing Excellence” series of novice chases has quickly established itself as one of the season’s less successful initiatives, race after race reducing to contests of no more than two or three runners.
Here was another match which, in the words of the late Jonathan Neesom, could almost have been timed with a calendar, clocking in as it did 20 seconds slower than the C&D handicap on identical ground in which MOON ROCKET had made a winning chasing debut a fortnight earlier.
It was the plod round ...

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