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The gradual drop in quality of maiden hurdles that always tends to start after the Christmas meetings is underway and Gordon Elliott looks to have found a good opportunity for Leomar to get off the mark over hurdles. A winner on the Flat in France, he made a promising start to his hurdling career when just touched off by Tout Est Permis in a maiden at Limerick’s Christmas meeting. With improvement likely to be forthcoming, he will be tough to beat. Of the rest, Theydon Park is an interesting recruit to the Joseph O’Brien team. The son of Royal Applause dead-heated in a bumper at Huntingdon in October when trained by Peter Charalambous and subsequently changed hands for £18,000.