Jeremy Grayson visits the smaller tracks with his notebook

The Wicket Chicken

STRATFORD, 29 July (Good, good to firm in places)
2m6f125yds (+126yds) 0-100 Handicap Chase (class 5)
The leaders - not least the thriving Franz Klammer - never looked like they were all going to come back to HE IS A CRACKER in time, despite the searing gallop they cut out. A 4l third was therefore probably the best outcome on offer barring accidents, but that in itself represented a major step up on anything the gelded son of Califet had achieved previously.
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