Market Rasen 4.05 - A competitive field of 11 in a Handicap Hurdle over just over 2 and a half miles. The rain will have helped a few and hindered others and the one I think who looks the most solid despite going up in the weights is EARLOFTHECOTSWOLDS. It always plays well to ride handy here and Sam rides for his dad and is likely to be at or near the front of proceedings. A Course and Distance winner off 117 when it looked to have plenty in hand, then ran well in a hotter race at Ludlow off a mark of 125, gone up again to 129 but I can't see anything particularly well handicapped and the Course form a very positive angle.