OUT IN THE STICKS

Jeremy Grayson has spotted more future winners off the beaten track

HEXHAM, 11 October (Soft, good to soft in places)
2m4f15yds (+62yds) 0-120 Novices’ Handicap Chase (class 4) It wouldn’t be every day that Sandy Thomson has to contend with inmates from the Philip Hobbs and Nicky Henderson yards taking on one of his in a Hexham novice handicap chase, much less that those horses officially rated lower than his own. That was the hand THE FERRY MASTER was dealt here, however, and with the Henderson gelding El Kaldoun proving a handicap blot, a near-8...