MARY REVELEY can land a double with Random Harvest and Executive Design on a rare visit to a National Hunt meeting at Ascot today.
The trainer is not one to over tax her charges and she has sent only six jumpers on the 250 mile trip from Saltburn to Berkshire in the last two and a half seasons. Two have won.
Random Harvest's jumping will be good enough to stand the test of the stiff Ascot fences in the Charles Davis Novices' Handicap Chase.
Fellow northern raider Mony Skip, from Sue Smith's yard, is sure to be popular after his recent third to potentially high class Pleasure Shared at Worcester. But he may well have been flattered that day and his earlier form is nothing special.
Random Harvest has much more solid claims, having shown plenty of ability on each of his three starts over fences last term and then made the smart Potter's Bay pull out all the stops at Wetherby on his reappearance.
With further improvement likely now that he tackles three miles for the first time, the seven year old is potentially thrown in off just 10st here.
Executive Design looked a useful hurdler in the making as he landed three juvenile events in the north of England last term.
He will be all the better for a recent pipe opener on the Flat and can put his fine turn of speed to good use in the Ladbroke Trial Handicap Hurdle.
Micky Hammond could be the trainer to follow at Aintree, where Bas de Laine and Sarmatian can follow up recent victories.
. The Moyglare Stud is to give £5,000 to Walter Swinburn for his charity walk in January. Stan Cosgrove, manager of the stud, said yesterday: "Walter is walking for some particularly good causes. We would like to support him and start the ball rolling."
The walk, from Limerick to Dublin, is to benefit St Vincent's Hospital in Dublin, a hospice for children in Cambridge and to help a fund set up in Hong Kong for local children burned in a hill fire.
