OUT IN THE STICKS

Jeremy Grayson with some future winners from off racing’s beaten track

SEDGEFIELD, 4 December (Soft)
2m3f188yds (-8yds) 0-110 Mares’ Handicap Hurdle (class 4)
The deteriorating conditions might be posited by some as the reason for AT FIRST GLANCE’s sharp retreat into midfield, but even allowing for the afternoon’s steady rain, conditions were only one ground increment worse than for the Stowaway mare’s Southwell success the month before. Rather, the inability to dictate matters as she had when making all for that victory, allied...