{"id":12053,"date":"2025-02-27T14:04:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T14:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bettingsitesreviewed.co.uk\/?p=12053"},"modified":"2025-02-27T17:14:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T17:14:49","slug":"kelso-races-preview-1-march-morebattle-hurdle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bettingsitesreviewed.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/02\/27\/kelso-races-preview-1-march-morebattle-hurdle\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelso Races Preview for 1 March – Race by Race Analysis of Morebattle Hurdle Card"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Saturday, 1 March is the big day for Kelso races in the Scottish Borders. It’s the Morebattle Hurdle card also featuring Listed action over fences and the Grade 2 Premier Novices’ Hurdle.<\/strong><\/p>\n A \u00a3100,000 bonus for any horse successful in the feature handicap who follows-up at the Cheltenham Festival only adds extra intrigue. The supporting card also contains a juvenile hurdle, two handicap chases and another handicap hurdle.<\/p>\n Kelso’s Premier Chase has the coup of Dan Skelton runner Grey Dawning declared to race. That is the biggest indication yet that he won’t contest the Cheltenham Gold Cup just 13 days later and instead has the alternative aim of the Aintree Bowl on 3 April.<\/p>\n The stable did see Le Milos turned over in the Scottish Borders, but main market rival Iroko has an entry at Newbury races<\/a> in the Greatwood Gold Cup. If jockey bookings are anything to go by, however, then Kelso is the first preference.<\/p>\n A full field of 18 runners goes for the big betting race, meanwhile. Last year’s winner Cracking Rhapsody is back to defend his Morebattle Hurdle crown. Other in-form past course and distance scorers are in the line-up, though.<\/p>\n