From Racing TV

The Carlisle Winter Warmer meeting is the latest National Hunt card to be held at the track with a competitive six-race card on offer on Thursday. 

Racing gets underway at 2.05pm with a handicap hurdle for amateur jockeys before rounding off at 4.55pm with a handicap chase in class four - and all will be shown live on Racing TV.

The opener (2.05) is a very open affair but the class of the 12 runner field is likely to be Yealand, for trainer Jennie Candlish. A winner at Newcastle off a mark of 96 before backing it up with a second at the same track off a mark of 103, Yealand is a 7/4 chance to land the opening contest with Betfair.

Race two (2.35) sees a small field of four runners take on the 2m1f handicap hurdle. Rocheval for trainer Lucina Russell appears to be the one to beat, a winner of an eight-runner Aintree bumper in November before another decisive win at Ayr backed that up and has big claims to make it a hat trick here. 

Race three (3.10) is a class four handicap chase over the 2m4f trip and Teescomponentyess is the one to beat - a dual hurdles winner in Ireland who makes a trip across the Irish Sea for the first time - and is backed to defy an 11lb rise in the wights. The chief threat is likely to arrive from Jacks Parrot, an interesting debutant for a new yard in Oliver Greenall and Josh Guerrerio having arrived from France having hit the frame a couple of times across the channel. 

You Some Girl is the selection in race four (3.45) in a weak-looking contest where she can get back to winning ways having fallen two fences from home on handicap debut in November. Irish point-to-point winner Maggie O is also of interest after a small break, having won at Doncaster in November but failing to fire since. 

The penultimate race of the afternoon (4.20) sees 12 runners tackle the 2m1f novices hurdle and there’s a couple in with a chance. Highlands Legacy has placed in a couple of bumpers this season and then went second at Wincanton on debut over obstacles so can progress here. One More Stroke made a winning start over hurdles too at Catterick in January and is another progressive type. 

Finally, the card rounds off with the 3m handicap chase in class four (4.55), with seven runners heading to post. On paper, the best of them is O’Connell, a winning Irish pointer who scored at Market Rasen before a fourth and second in his subsequent starts. Dropping down in class, the eight-year-old can go well at Carlisle and get back to winning ways.

Carlisle selections - Thursday (via Cheltenham Festival betting)

2.05 - Yealand

2.35 - Rocheval

3.10 - Teescomponentyess

3.45 - You Some Girl

4.20 - Highlands Legacy

4.55 - O’Connell

Report via Racing TV / Press Box PR