STUART Crawford has some above average performers to go to war with this season and while the talented mare Twentytwo’s Taken suffered defeat at Navan last Sunday, she along with the likes of Gilt Shadow and Fine Rightly should ensure that his horses will be competitive in graded races this season.

He has an army of unraced/unnamed horses and he stated: “We have some lovely young horses here and we’d have around 15/20 three-year-olds that we are just feeling our way with. They are all National Hunt-bred horses that we are in no rush with. They will go the bumper or point-to-point route next year.