The great skill with which Evan Williams has guided young chaser’s career may be rewarded with Chepstow glory
Evan Williams has done an excellent
Job with Secret Reprieve (3.10), guiding the talented seven-year-old through the early stages of his chasing career so that he lands right at the foot of the weights for today’s Welsh Grand National. It will be a crying shame if the race is abandoned for a second time because otherwise the Vale Of Glamorgan trainer seems very well positioned to get his first victory in the Chepstow feature.
There is plenty that can go wrong, of course, and Secret Reprieve is not generously priced at 4-1 but it is hard to identify a potent, reliable threat. Truckers Lodge will run an honest race but is 16lb higher than when second last year. Big River makes life hard for himself by getting outpaced and if he breaks a fence at the wrong time his chance will be scuppered but the Scottish raider is capable of nicking a place at 16-1.