UNBEATEN King Revo (2.55) has the class to maintain his 100 per cent record in today's Victor Ludorum Juvenile Hurdle at Haydock.

King Revo didn't pull up any trees when running on the Flat in 2003, but now he's been switched to jumps the strapping gelding has proved an absolute revelation.

Three silky smooth wins over timber, including last time out at Wetherby where he hardly broke sweat, have put the Middleham raider towards the top of the ratings in the two-mile juvenile hurdle division for 2004.

"We are going up in grade, but I still think he's good enough to win," said King Revo's trainer, Patrick Halsam. And it is an opinion backed up by Andrew Thornton, who has partnered the son of Revoque to all three career successes.

"You would never think he was only a four-year-old, he's so well developed. The horse also has a high cruising speed which he can easily quicken off," said Thornton.

Potentially the only fly in the ointment as far King Revo is concerned is the absence of Sedgefield-born Thornton with a broken arm. His place has been taken by J P Macnamara, formerly with Ferdy Murphy, but now based in the south principally at Kim Bailey's.

Macnamara has been out riding out of his skin so far this term and appears to be a wise replacement decision from the ever-shrewd Haslam.

In the following three-mile Golden Wedding Handicap Chase, Tyneandthyneagain (3.30) could well defy top-weight.

Exactly a fortnight ago Tyneandthyneagain was both our headline horse and nap selection to win the Singer National Trial at Uttoxeter. The meeting was washed out, but as he'd been declared as a second preference for Doncaster's Great Yorkshire Chase, he was immediately re-routed to south Yorkshire and duly obliged, landing a colossal gamble from 22's to 7-1.

Cruelly the win did not count in the Racing Post top-tipster competition, but I hope many followers of the column took the hint and availed themselves of the mouth-watering odds on offer.

Richard Guest believes Tyneandthyneagain might eventually supply a second Grand National win for his owner Norman Mason. In the meantime the tough nine-year-old should continue to mop up prize money provided the ground remains soft.

Guest incidentally is making a surprise return to the race-riding up at Ayr, partnering One Day (2.30) in the Serendipity Novices Hurdle.

Although Richard has been otherwise detained building up his burgeoning training business at Brancepeth, he never actually ruled out a return to the saddle and in the shape of One Day, so impressive when hacking up at Carlisle in November, he appears to have stage-managed a winning comeback for himself.

Lenny Lungo and Tony Dobbin hardly ever leave the track out of pocket and with Paddy The Piper (1.25) plus Joe Blake (3.00) on duty, another substantial pay-day beckons.

Paddy The Piper has plenty of gears and is fancied to complete a four-timer in the opener, while Joe Blake, a real powerhouse, can overwhelm his rivals in the feature event on the card, the £18,000 Lloyds TSB Handicap Chase.

If you're out all day and miss the afternoon action, there's always the consolation of Wolverhampton's evening meeting.

Not for the first time Gay Kelleway is vying for the all-weather trainer's championship, and it's hard to look past her representative, Vortex (8.30), in the betdirect.co.uk Handicap.

* Andrew Thornton is confident his broken arm will have mended in time for him to ride at the Cheltenham Festival.

Sedgefield-born Thornton sustained the injury when taking a crashing fall from Manawanui at the last fence in a handicap chase at Kempton this month.

''The arm is coming on very well and I'll definitely be back for Cheltenham,'' he said yesterday.

''I went to see my surgeon Mike Foy yesterday and got the stitches out. The wound is very, very clean, there is very little swelling in the arm and there has been very little muscle wastage, which is the main thing."

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