Jeremy Grayson with his monthly round-up of horses to follow from the nation’s smaller tracks

OUT IN THE STICKS
SOUTHWELL, 2 MARCH (STANDARD TO SLOW FIBRESAND)
2m Jumpers’ Bumper NH Flat Race (class 4)
Not too much should, of course, be read into the specific achievements of most of the runners in each event on this absentee-ravaged fixture, held when disruption from the snow was at its worst. In making most to land this ordinary event, however, SWASHBUCKLE did at least give ample indication that the winter’s reverses under both codes hadn’t soured him...