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Doctor Harper surges to summit of festival markets

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Tom Scudamore riding Doctor Harper (L)

Doctor Harper (left): won at the Grand National meeting in 2014

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 By Stuart Riley 4:16PM 26 JAN 2016 

THE Pipe yard is synonymous with handicap success at the Cheltenham Festival and a facile victory at Leicester resulted in Doctor Harper surging to the head of ante-post markets for two of this year’s races.

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As short as 10-1 and a best-priced 14-1 for the CHAPS Novices’ Handicap Chase, the final race on day one, with bet365 and Betfair, the Johnson family-owned eight-year-old is also the same price with the same two firms for the Fulke Walwyn Kim Muir Challenge Cup Handicap Chase.

The Pipe family has never won the 2m4½f 0-140 handicap for novices, but has a much better record in the amateur riders’ contest on day three, over 3m2f, which David Pipe taking last year’s race with The Package, following Junior’s 2011 success. It is a race his father, Martin, also won on three occasions.

Doctor Harper finished 12th in the 2013 Champion Bumper, won by Briar Hill, and was successful in the Grade 3 handicap hurdle over 3m½f at the Grand National meeting the following year.

He missed all of last season but returned at Sandown over hurdles in December before chasing home L’Ami Serge and Garde La Victoire on his first two chase starts over 2m.

Tuesday’s race at Leicester, a 2m chase for novices, saw him take on just two rivals and he returned on the bridle as a four and a half length winner at odds of 8-11.

Winning jockey Tom Scudamore said: “Doctor Harper is a good jumper of fences which wasn’t always the case over hurdles and he did that nicely. He’s won over three miles so could go up in trip but it depends how he is in the morning as he’s had his issues.”

Trainer David Pipe tweeted: “A great round of jumping from Doctor Harper to score nicely @LeicesterRaces under @tommyscu.”

Doctor Harper was also cut for the Ultima Business Solutions Handicap Chase and the Pertemps Final over hurdles, with bookmakers unsure where he will run at the festival.

 

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