Following on from last month’s dozen maidens to follow, Paul Ferguson highlights 10 novice hurdlers to note during the upcoming 2022-2023 National Hunt season

ALTOBELLI (Harry Fry) A four-year-old by Maxios, he won impressively at Exeter in February, comfortably beating a subsequent winner by 5½ lengths, having travelled smoothly throughout. He held entries during the spring – including in the Grade 2 at Aintree – but we didn’t see him again and he rates an exciting prospect for the Harry Fry stable. From a speedy family, he certainly didn’...