Scu's View - Take Bleu to deliver the Post

By PETER SCUDAMORE

Last updated at 00:30 24 February 2007

LUCIFER BLEU (Kempton,

3.10) looks thrown in at

the weights for Saturday’s

Racing Post Chase.

David Pipe’s improving

chaser can carry just 9st

9lb with accomplished

conditional Andrew

Glassonbury taking five

pounds off and he could

prove hard to catch.

This free-going sort has

already won easily at

similar right-handed

tracks in Hereford and

Wincanton, albeit over

shorter distances.

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Although beaten over

today’s trip three years

ago, connections clearly

feel he can last home on

today’s sharp track.

If he does fail for a lack

of stamina, stablemate

Celtic Son could be the

one to take advantage,

while Without A Doubt

and proven stayer Simon

also merit respect.

My filly Lady of Scarvagh

won over course and

distance last time and this race was an obvious

target. She holds place

claims.

The Pipe team can also

score with WINDSOR BOY

(Kempton, 4.45) for

whom Tony McCoy looks

a significant booking,

but their Classified

needs to polish up his

jumping if he is to win

the novices’ chase and

Paul Nicholls-trained

NATAL (Kempton, 2.35) is

preferred.

GRACECHURCH (Kempton,

3.45), second to the

smart Predateur before

winning at Folkestone,

can upset fancied rivals

in the juvenile hurdle.

My son Tom is taken to

land the marathon Eider

Chase on Grand National

hope NIL DESPERANDUM

(Newcastle, 3.30), who

looks the field’s class act.