Coral Long Distance Hurdle
 QuinnBet
Grade 2, Newbury 15:00
£60,000 guaranteed, 4yo plus,
3m 52y, Class 1  
Friday 28th November 2025

1 Impose Toi 6/5F
2 Strong Leader 5/2
3 Take No Chances 7/1
7 ran Distances: ½l, 3¼l, 2¼l
Time: 6m 21.34s (slow by 30.04s)

Impose Toi made the rise from handicaps to the rarified air of graded company look a perfectly natural progression as he claimed the win, finding his rhythm even as the race itself never quite settled into one.

Fresh from an eye-catching success in a Pertemps Qualifier at Aintree, the seven-year-old was sent off the favourite for Nicky Henderson and travelled with the sort of quiet authority that suggested the market had judged him just about right, despite the field dawdling then dashing in fits and starts.

Tucked in behind Strong Leader on the approach to the last, he then got the hurdle all wrong, losing momentum at precisely the moment he could have done without it. Nico de Boinville was forced to get down to work soon after, urging Henderson’s runner to lift again, and lift he did—slowly clawing back the deficit before edging ahead in the dying strides to land it by half a length.

The sponsors reacted quickly, trimming Impose Toi to 10/1 for the Paddy Power Stayers’ Hurdle at Cheltenham, a nod to the notion that this may only be the beginning of his ascent.

Coral Long Distance Hurdle
£60,000 guaranteed, 4yo plus, 3m 52y, Class 1
7 ran
Going: Soft, Good to Soft in places

POS. DIST HORSE AGE WGT TRAINER JOCKEY SP
1    Impose Toi 7 11-2 Nicky Henderson Nico de Boinville 6/5F
2 ½ Strong Leader 8 11-8 Olly Murphy Sean Bowen 5/2
3 3¼ Take No Chances 7 11-1 Dan Skelton Harry Skelton 7/1
4 2¼ Doddiethegreat 9 11-6 Nicky Henderson James Bowen 17/2
5 7 Hewick 10 11-2 John Joseph Hanlon Paddy Hanlon 16/1
6 22 Ahoy Senor 10 11-2 Lucinda Russell & Michael Scudamore Derek Fox 18/1
FELL Botox Has 9 11-2 Gary & Josh Moore Caoilin Quinn 14/1