IT was a busy weekend of action to pick just one eyecatching performance from, but there’s a horse who I think was very unlucky at Haydock on Saturday, writes Page Fuller.

Holly was catching the eye up the home straight in the valuable two-mile handicap hurdle, cruising into contention with only the last to negotiate, but she stumbled on landing and threw the race away because of it. She only gained 0.51 lengths jumping at the last compared to Brentford Hope’s +1.28 length gain.

This three quarters of a length lost at that jump alone must have cost her, as well as the cost of momentum she would have lost too.

She took 0.8secs longer to get up to speed too after the hurdle than Brentford Hope so there is enough to suggest that in a similar race she will be able to defy the 3lb rise the handicapper has served her.