Jeremy Grayson with another selection of jumpers noted at the nation’s less glamorous venues

OUT IN THE STICKS

Sam Twiston Davies

SOUTHWELL, 12 JUNE (GOOD)
2m4f62yds 0-110 Handicap Hurdle (class 4)
The number of horses Tom George keeps on the go usually trails off sharply around June, only to pick up again in the early autumn, but BORN FOR WAR is presumably one of this season’s small handful of summer projects judged on this first outing since mid-January. Putting his best foot forward proved surprisingly hard work in soft-ground 2m-2m4f novice hurdles last winter considering...