Perth 4.20 12 Green Zone - 1/2 point each way (20/1 PP is early standout) 14/1 generally and Lads / Coral / Sky enhance to 4th in knowledge 15 declared.

A competitive Handicap Hurdle with the top of the market compacted by a few Irish challengers including ones from the Elliott yard. The UK form though of the favourite does not suggest it is anything more than solid and it is worth looking for some value elsewhere. The likes of An fear Ciuin; Tangolan; Ryalex and Crachan have some decent Course form nd Chasma should run very well, but the one who got stronger in my mind the longer I looked was GREEN ZONE. It ran up a treble off marks of 95; 105 and 105 late last summer and travelled very sweetly in those races. The Yard invariably find a winner or big priced place horses at meetings here and it has slipped back to a very appealing mark of 88, and still a relatively young horse. It has run over an unsuitable 2 miles a few times this summer, probably needs genuinely Good ground and gets it here and with its most productive pilot back in the saddle looks a sporting each way punt. It ran very well upped to 3 miles last time, and a view that they have sharpened it up over 2 miles, boosted stamina over 3 miles and today is going to be one of those where they fancy a real crack off a very nice (possibly manufactured) mark.