We’re counting down to our final fixture of 2021 on Thursday 16th December. It’s Christmas Jumper Race Day with seven races from 12.10pm. Tickets are just £15 in advance.
Wales’s top hurdler, Silver Streak, ran fairly well for most of the way in Newcastle’s Fighting Fifth, only to fade into fourth place. A consolation for the yard was the victory of Winds Of Fire in an earlier three mile novice chase. Owned, like Silver Streak, by Leslie Fell, he made much of the running. He jumped carefully at first – understandably bearing in mind his first-fence departure on his chasing debut a month ago – but improved as the race went on. Adam Wedge nursed him round, boosting his confidence.
Sean Bowen was disappointed by the poor run of Paul Nicholls’ Monmiral in the Fighting Fifth, but he too gained compensation in one of the other Newcastle races aboard a stablemate. Mr Glass appeared hard pushed to justify odds on in a 2m6f novice hurdle, and yet that was his fourth consecutive success. Bowen reported that he idles in front.
James Bowen (photographed) has been cleaning up on Nicky Henderson’s lesser lights that run at minor meetings, and Surrey Quest added to that tally in a three-horse race at Leicester on Sunday. He then scored aboard Buzz De Turcoing at Ayr on Monday and is now on 38 winners for the season.
David Probert rode his 159th and 160th winners of the year at Wolverhampton on Saturday evening, the first of them on The Daley Express for Ron Harris. The seven-year-old had been knocking at the door for a long time and deserved a change of luck.
Headlines were made by the six-length victory of a horse called Jonbon in a Newbury maiden hurdle on Friday, partly because J P McManus paid £570,000 for him a year ago. If he is as good as that price suggests it marks the runner-up as a pretty decent sort too, especially as he didn’t jump with as much fluency. That was Good Risk At All, trained by Sam Thomas for Dai Walters. He should break his duck before long.
There could be a strong Welsh presence in next Saturday’s Becher Chase over three and a quarter miles of the Grand National fences. Peter Bowen has recent course winner Mac Tottie and Landofsmiles entered, Minella Bobo could run for Rebecca Curtis and Christian Williams has Cap Du Nord. It’s less than a year since the latter finished a three-length runner-up to Royale Pagaille in receipt of ten pounds. His form figures don’t look great but last time out in the Badger Beer at Wincanton he was a fair fourth and he may be coming to the boil at the right time. We’re counting down to our final fixture of 2021 on Thursday 16th December. It’s Christmas Jumper Race Day with seven races from 12.10pm. Tickets are just £15 in advance.
Wales’s top hurdler, Silver Streak, ran fairly well for most of the way in Newcastle’s Fighting Fifth, only to fade into fourth place. A consolation for the yard was the victory of Winds Of Fire in an earlier three mile novice chase. Owned, like Silver Streak, by Leslie Fell, he made much of the running. He jumped carefully at first – understandably bearing in mind his first-fence departure on his chasing debut a month ago – but improved as the race went on. Adam Wedge nursed him round, boosting his confidence.
Sean Bowen was disappointed by the poor run of Paul Nicholls’ Monmiral in the Fighting Fifth, but he too gained compensation in one of the other Newcastle races aboard a stablemate. Mr Glass appeared hard pushed to justify odds on in a 2m6f novice hurdle, and yet that was his fourth consecutive success. Bowen reported that he idles in front.
James Bowen (photographed) has been cleaning up on Nicky Henderson’s lesser lights that run at minor meetings, and Surrey Quest added to that tally in a three-horse race at Leicester on Sunday. He then scored aboard Buzz De Turcoing at Ayr on Monday and is now on 38 winners for the season.
David Probert rode his 159th and 160th winners of the year at Wolverhampton on Saturday evening, the first of them on The Daley Express for Ron Harris. The seven-year-old had been knocking at the door for a long time and deserved a change of luck.
Headlines were made by the six-length victory of a horse called Jonbon in a Newbury maiden hurdle on Friday, partly because J P McManus paid £570,000 for him a year ago. If he is as good as that price suggests it marks the runner-up as a pretty decent sort too, especially as he didn’t jump with as much fluency. That was Good Risk At All, trained by Sam Thomas for Dai Walters. He should break his duck before long.
There could be a strong Welsh presence in next Saturday’s Becher Chase over three and a quarter miles of the Grand National fences. Peter Bowen has recent course winner Mac Tottie and Landofsmiles entered, Minella Bobo could run for Rebecca Curtis and Christian Williams has Cap Du Nord. It’s less than a year since the latter finished a three-length runner-up to Royale Pagaille in receipt of ten pounds. His form figures don’t look great but last time out in the Badger Beer at Wincanton he was a fair fourth and he may be coming to the boil at the right time.
