STAR GATE can shine brightest when reputations go on the line in the Grade 2 Ballymore Winter Novices' Hurdle (2.25, NAP) at Sandown.
The four-year-old looked a bright prospect when bounding away from his Chepstow rivals in October. Evan Williams won a Grade 1 race at this meeting last season and might just have similar aspirations for the £140,000 purchase.
Nico de Boinville also has bold jumper MORNING VICAR (1.50) and smart mare VEGAS BLUE (3.35) to look forward to on the card – 24 hours before he takes the reins on great chaser Altior.
The top jockey is without a ride in the Pertemps Network Handicap Hurdle (3.00), a race in which DREAM BERRY finished second 12 months ago.
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