OUT IN THE STICKS

Jeremy Grayson starts this month with a promising chase performance in Shropshire

Jeremy Grayson
LUDLOW, 8 January (Good to soft, soft in places)
2m7f171yds (+88yds) 0-115 AR/CJ Hands and Heels Handicap Chase (class 4) Aside from five winners (including Global Citizen’s success in the Wayward Lad) during December it’s been a pretty chastening 2019-20 season so far for Ben Pauling, with a strike-rate still languishing in single figures and some of his divisions (notably bumper horses) not providing the quantities of successes usually expected. The...