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This weekend’s Racing with Farringdon: May 11-12
Eventual Winner Aurigny Mill ridden by Fergus Gillard (left) in action during The Ladbrokes Boost Your Odds On Racing Handicap Hurdle during day two of the Ladbrokes Christmas Festival at Kempton Park, Sunbury-on-Thames. Picture date: Wednesday December 2

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THERE is some cracking action both on the level and over the sticks this weekend and my main each-way wager falls on the head of AURIGNY MILL in the Swinton Handicap Hurdle at Haydock Park due off at 3.15.

The likelihood is that the Cheltenham Festival winner, Lark In The Mornin, will start a strong market leader against his older rivals following his impressive success in the Juvenile Handicap Hurdle. Of course he is open to plenty of improvement on only his fifth hurdles start, but I fancy that the selection can give him weight and a beating here.

Trained by Victor Dartnall, the seven-year-old in turn also has few miles on the clock for a horse of his age (11 starts) and following an impressive win in a class three event at Kempton he was sent off as short as 22/1 for the Handicap Hurdle at Newbury, but was never going a yard from the off, eventually trailing home some 68 lengths off the winner Iberico Lord.

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