Will Teasle

Uptown Harry is an experienced veteran who has finished in the first three places in nine of his chases. The horse has not fallen or unseated in any of his 41 races under rules. Uptown Harry stays well and likes a soft surface. He is twelve pounds lower in the weights compared to his last win.

Tommy The Tank has his second run in handicaps but his first in handicap hurdle races. He made mistakes on his chasing debut last month and reverts to hurdling with form figures in this sphere of 2214. The horse has won on right-handed tracks at Hereford and Ascot, so Wincanton can suit. Tommy The Tank has scored over further than today's distance and goes well on forecast good to soft going.

Six-year-old Finbarr makes a belated racecourse debut. With an interesting pedigree showing stamina, he can make the places at an each-way price. Finbarr is a son of the great stayer Yeats and out of a dam who won on her racecourse debut in a National Hunt Flat race at Newcastle. Both Finbarr's half-brothers won in this sphere first time out, one of them at Newcastle.

Mhordart is given an outside chance, but he needs to improve on his debut run over today's course and distance in December. His dam represented today's connections and placed in a National Hunt Flat race.

Lingering Glance makes his racecourse debut and is given an each-way chance at decent odds based on pedigree pointers. He is a brother to the useful Dashel Drasher, who got off the mark in a Wincanton National Hunt Flat race on his racecourse debut. The dam placed in this sphere on her rules debut.

The Polly Gundry stable is not known for winners in National Hunt Flat races but saddled a second-placed horse from her sole runner in the last fortnight. Jockey Callum Pritchard is showing a level-stakes profit and a 20% strike rate in this sphere in the current season. Up The Hill is from a good family with plenty of winners, including in today's sphere. The dam won one of her two races. Up The Hill receives the seven-pound mares' allowance and her rider claims an additional three pounds, so this mare is given an outside chance at massive odds on her racecourse debut.

A classified stakes, which is unlikely to take much winning, could go to the experienced five-time winner Tilsworth Ony Ta. His stable concentrates on 4YO+ all-weather runners and is showing a level-stakes profit in this sphere over the last five seasons. J. R. Jenkins has saddled two winners in the last week. Jockey Lewis Edmunds is also going well. The horse is a course-and-distance winner in the month of January from a much higher mark.