Trouble Brewing for Kim's rivals in Chepstow Chase

THE Kemble Brewery can make a successful start to his career over fences in the NMS UK Novices’ Limited Handicap Chase at Chepstow.

- By ASHLEY IVESON

Trainer Kim Bailey, now in partnership with his longtime assistant Mat Nicholls, has never made any secret of the regard in which he holds this six-year-old and so far he has largely lived up to the billing.

The dual bumper winner was beaten on his hurdling debut at Cheltenham but after spending almost a year on the sidelines afterwards, he showed his class with a couple of low-key victories at Worcester and Ffos Las last autumn.

He was just unfortunate to come up against a talented rival when bidding for his hat-trick at Ludlow, with the winner Meetmebythesea - to whom he was conceding almost a stone in weight - going on to finish a close third in the EBF Final at Sandown.