3:02 Exeter Tips

Livin On Luco has the services of the very able Callum Pritchard here and comes from an excellent yard. The two veterans who look to provide the main opposition both look likely to feel the firmer ground more than him, and he's lightly raced enough to bring fresher legs to this. I think they both need cut in the ground, whereas he has placed on this sort of footing previously and has won on a good??'soft surface.

Egbert went into the notebook when winning the Tommy Whittle at Haydock in December 2024. He was then aimed at the Grand National and put in two bad runs. He then switched stables to Christian Williams and bolted up when returned to Haydock Park. Today he goes to Exeter in a follow-up attempt, and with Harry Cobden booked that must be a positive. Effective on both right- and left-handed tracks, a similar display to the Haydock race would see him go close.

Escaria Ten performed well last time when third on the cross-country course at Cheltenham. Now a twelve-year-old, his last win was in December 2020 back in Ireland. Although he copes with this kind of distance on the cross-country course and at Aintree in the Grand National, his stamina might get stretched over Exeter's fences, as the race is one and a half furlongs short of four miles.