Jeremy Grayson gets out and about with his notebook

FFOS LAS, 17 June (Good to firm, good in places)
2m (+69yds) 0-120 Novices’ Handicap Chase (class 4)
This twelfth running of Ffos Las’s first and oldest fixture cut up rather on account of the ever-quickening surface (a 1/33 favourite won a match on all over good to firm later on), but this looked a fair race for the grade beforehand. It’s fair to say that runner-up LORD SCHNAPPS caught a tartar in the shape of the hugely impressive chasing debutant Courtland, who picked him off three out and disappeared into the lo...