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Ethical Packaging Novices' Handicap Steeple Chase

13:45 Ffos Las Wed 14 Oct 2026 2m7f177y Class 5 Good to Soft 11 runners

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Mr Fox’s call

Roi du Roume silks

Roi du Roume

SPECULATIVE Advised 7/2 Est. 24%

🏁 4TH

Mr Fox says

Roi du Roume (SR:83, 7/2) carries the lightest competitive weight at 10-7 — a meaningful advantage over topweights My Own Lovely Lee and The Magus on 12-0 in a novice handicap chase on good to soft ground — and is the only horse in the field showing genuine market confidence with a 17% in-move (Mkt:in17%). Sean Bowen's booking (24% career strike rate, 2,406 rides) is the standout jockey engagement in the field by some margin, and trainer Mickey Bowen hits at 16% from 524 runners. The recent form string (-42624) shows consistent placed efforts and a latest fourth is not alarming given the weight-in-hand today; the combination of weight, market intelligence, and connections quality makes this the most compelling convergence of signals in the race. Each-way alternative: Wannabe. Main danger: Wannabe — Wannabe (SR:87, 10/3) is the highest-rated horse in the field, has been backed in aggressively (Mkt:in34%), carries 11-9 which is favourable relative to its SR, and Tom Lacey (19% strike rate) with Stan Sheppard (16%) is a respectable combination — if GoingFit:- proves less of a concern than it looks, this could reverse the market and beat everything.

Verify· #23306

Full result

Winner: Tell The Tale (IRE) at SP 3/1F. Mr Fox’s picks highlighted in gold.

  1. 1 Tell The Tale silks Tell The Tale Neil Mulholland · Conor O'Farrell 3/1
  2. 2 Bells of Ufford silks Bells of Ufford Tim Vaughan · David Noonan 16/1
  3. 3 Miss Pearl silks Miss Pearl David Rees · Shane Fenelon(5) 16/1
  4. 4 Roi du Roume silks Roi du Roume Fox #1 Mickey Bowen · Sean Bowen 7/2
  5. 5 Good For You silks Good For You Mrs Jane Williams · Ciaran Gethings 14/1
  6. — My Own Lovely Lee silks My Own Lovely Lee Fox #3 Philip Hobbs & Johnson White · Callum Pritchard 5/1
  7. — The Magus silks The Magus Mrs C. Williams · Conor Ring 11/1
  8. — Wannabe silks Wannabe Fox #2 Tom Lacey · Stan Sheppard 7/2
  9. — Babatunde silks Babatunde Richard Mitford-Slade · Sean Houlihan 15/2
  10. — Saddlers Quest silks Saddlers Quest Debra Hamer · Robert Dunne 125/1
  11. — Izzy's Grey silks Izzy's Grey Belinda Clarke · Lee Edwards 12/1

Top 4 — how each finished

  1. 1 Roi du Roume silks Roi du Roume 7/2 🏁 4TH
  2. 2 Wannabe silks Wannabe 10/3
  3. 3 My Own Lovely Lee silks My Own Lovely Lee 17/2