Unibet 3 Uniboosts A Day Novice Stakes (GBB/GBBPlus Race)

17:15 Kempton (AW) Mon 05 Oct 2026 1m3f219y Class 3 Good to Soft 7 runners

Mr Fox’s call

Noble Journey

HIGH Advised 8/15 SP 4/9F Est. 62%

🏆 WON

Mr Fox says

Noble Journey (SR 157, 8/15) is in a different class to this field — a 37-point SR gap over the next-best runner (Katana at 120) is enormous in a 7-runner novice. Charlie Appleby's yard is firing at 33% strike rate across 864 runners, and William Buick's booking (25% career SR, 1509 runners) signals this is emphatically the yard's number one, confirmed by a 28% market steam from opening price — serious money has piled in. The form string 41 on Flat and the AW novice context suggest a lightly-raced horse being readied for a straightforward win, and at 8/15 the market is pricing it as near certainty for good reason. Each-way alternative: Pursuit of Love. Main danger: Pursuit of Love — As Noble Journey's stablemate from Appleby's yard (SR 96, 2/1), Pursuit of Love has the same training environment and is the only runner with a respectable market price, though the 61-point SR deficit and Connor Planas booking versus Buick makes it clearly the second string.

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Full result

Winner: Noble Journey (GB) at SP 4/9F. Mr Fox’s picks highlighted in gold.

1 Noble Journey Fox #1 Charlie Appleby · William Buick 4/7
2 Pursuit of Love Fox #2 Charlie Appleby · Connor Planas 2/1
3 Allaire Fox #3 Andrew Balding · Jason Watson 7/1
4 O'Driscoll James Horton · Jack Mitchell 100/1
5 Paniolo Creek Keiran Burke · Josephine Gordon 150/1
6 Circle of Secrets Fergal O'Brien · Laura Coughlan(3) 150/1
7 Katana Robert Stephens · William Carson 125/1

Top 4 — how each finished

1 Noble Journey 8/15 SP 4/9F 🏆 WON
2 Pursuit of Love 2/1 🥈 2ND
3 Allaire 15/2 🥉 3RD