Uttoxeter Saturday

THE weekend after the Cheltenham Festival can feel slightly deflating, but the Midlands National and a pair of handicaps at Kempton for those balloted out of Festival handicaps provide their share of interest, and the former race allowed Paul Nicholls to shrug off a blank week in the Cotswolds as 28/1 outsider Isaac Des Obeaux landed Uttoxeter’s big race of the year under Sam Twiston-Davies.