VALUABLE Saturday afternoon handicap hurdles invariably produce tight finishes with each-way value a prime consideration.

Gordon Elliott’s Folsom Blue kept on well to finish fourth of 16 in the near three-mile Heroes Handicap Hurdle, thus satisfying win and place merchants at 7/1, but there was nothing ‘tight’ about the finish to this Grade 3 contest as Peter Bowen’s Lord Napier picked off Coole Cody at the last and went away to score by nine lengths. Flemcara finished a good third.