Ex-Evan Williams-trained
Cleverality (2.10) can get us off to a flyer in the conditional jockeys' chase on his debut for fellow Welsh handler Alison Thorpe.
For instance: Alliterative is "absolutely awful" and "frightfully fat"; Blackstones Bridge is "clearly a physical wreck, who has run with a heart monitor, and an appearance in an equine zimmer-frame is on the cards";
Cleverality "broke Mark Lewis's nose at Erw Lon, and he in turn would probably like to have broken the nose of the stewards, who cautioned him for setting such a frantic early pace in the maiden win (a real Alice in Wonderland scenario)".
Just on that, two of the lads came in for a drop of support after the day's work, and it was one of them, Peter Lowry, that brought the whole ruin down on us with his
cleverality, once he heard what was up.
Mark took the members' race on his father-in-law's Eastwell Violet and the restricted on his father's
Cleverality.
The jockey in question, Mark Lewis, who had ridden
Cleverality to victory in a division of the confined maiden, was cautioned for setting a "frantic early pace"!