The Perfect Poet won the 1:37 at Lingfield, the John Marshall 80th Birthday Celebration Novices' Hurdle Race, beating Raulin by 4¼ lengths, with Analogical third. Ridden by Ben Jones and trained by Ben Pauling, starting price 4/5 (favourite).
| 1 | J: Ben Jones · T: Ben Pauling | 4/5F |
| 2 | J: Caoilin Quinn · T: Jamie Moore & Josh Moore · beaten 4.25l | 22/1 |
| 3 | J: Sean Houlihan · T: Philip Hobbs & Johnson White · beaten 4.25l | 11/2 |
| 4 | J: Freddie Gordon · T: Chris Gordon · beaten 12.75l | 17/2 |
| 5 | J: Tabitha Worsley · T: Nick Gifford · beaten 14l | 13/2 |
| 6 | J: Charlie Todd · T: Dan Skelton · beaten 15.5l | 12/1 |
| 7 | J: Freddie Mitchell · T: Cynthia Woods · beaten 18.75l | 150/1 |
| 8 | J: Liam Harrison · T: Dan Skelton · beaten 20.25l | 33/1 |
| 9 | J: Charlie Hammond · T: Stuart Edmunds · beaten 28.25l | 33/1 |
| 10 | J: Tom Cannon · T: Nick Gifford · beaten 67.25l | 12/1 |
| UR | J: David Noonan · T: Pat Phelan | 100/1 |
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