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Paul Nicholls has three runners at Kempton on Saturday
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Sans Bruit and Viroflay look in the grip of the handicapper
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Confident that Nardaran can return to form at a nice price
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14:30 - Sans Bruit
He's down to a mark of 139 after his defeat at Cheltenham but he needs to be down to around 130 or even less to win, that's just him and as we all know he's better in the spring.
But who knows with him, he ran in this race last year, he ran well enough at Cheltenham last time and he's a game horse. I think he'll run well again but whether he's handicapped well enough to win I have my doubts.
15:07 - Viroflay
He's finished runner-up three times on the spin now, he's a genuine tough horse but he's on a mark of 136 now so he has it all to do.
But he ran very well the last day and the form has worked out well, and the more the ground dries out for him the better, so with a dry forecast hopefully he'll run well, but he's right on the limit with his current handicap mark I'd say.
15:37 - Nardaran (NON-RUNNER)
He was chasing a hat-trick at Plumpton last time but was pulled up, some of our horses weren't quite right around that time but we couldn't find too much wrong with him and he's fine now, I probably just ran him too soon after his win at Sandown the week before.
I see that he was upwards of 20/1 ante-post in some places and I think that was a massive price, if he hadn't have pulled up last time he wouldn't be 20/1 that's for sure.
He jumped nicely on Tuesday morning, he's in good shape, and I'm confident he'll return back to form and run very well. You can always forgive a horse a bad run, it was just too bad to be true last time so just put a line through it as he seems well again.