5:00 Catterick, Tuesday, March 1
March 1st, 2016 | 
Author: In the Racing Again 9th March Handicap Hurdle (5.00) at Catterick on Tuesday, Seymour Eric may never scale the heights that once seemed likely earlier in his career, but was nibbled at in the market when showing slight signs of resurgence at Towcester last month and may be ready to win his first race for nearly three years. Now an 11-year-old, the Bollin Eric gelding has dropped 28lb in the weights since last visiting the winners’ enclosure and, having raced prominently at Towcester, weakened from three out to finish third of the eight runners, beaten 13½ lengths by the winner, Mondo Cane.
If he’s able to build on that, the return to 3 miles 1 furlong should be in his favour and, while he’s yet to win on going faster than good to soft, but with rain, sometimes heavy, forecast for Yorkshire overnight, he may well have underfoot conditions to suit. Of course, he comes with risks attached, but the fact that he was supported over 2 miles – a trip at least half a mile short of his best – last time suggests that he must have been showing something at home.
Selection: Catterick 5.00 Seymour Eric to win