LAST MEETING REVIEW |MONDAY 27TH SEPTEMBER 2021
Racing continued at Newton Abbot on a wet Monday afternoon.
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Our opening race, the Talk Tidy Marketing Conditional Jockeys’ Selling Handicap Hurdle was won by outsider Arty Campbell, giving trainer Bernard Llewellyn a welcome winner following their trip from Caerphilly in Wales. Held up right at the back of the pack by Robert Williams, Arty Campbell travelled well in the hands of his jockey, taking up the lead on the home turn and being ridden into the last by his jockey. He looked to have the race sown up but Kieren Buckley galvanised his mount, favourite Masteradream for Neil Mulholland, and he put up a mighty late charge. Had it not been for a mistake at the last he may have gunned down the leader, but Arty Campbell did enough to see out the race by half a length. A competitive six runner novice hurdle came next, with a smart field going to post in the Jan And Jeff Silver Wedding Anniversary Novices’ Hurdle. Evan Williams’ Loved Out and Paul Nicholls’ Wise Glory were sent off joint 11/8 favourites under Adam Wedge and Harry Cobden respectively, but it was the David Pipe-trained Flammarion who came out on top under Tom Scudamore. A recent acquisition from David O’Meara’s flat yard, Flammarion has a spin on the flat at Ffos Las under Hollie Doyle the time before
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and finished second but went one better over the longer trip and with a few obstacles in his way. Scudamore kept his mount 5 in contention throughout and made his challenge three hurdles from the finish, with the pair taking up the lead two out. Scudamore got to work on his mount and kept him going, and when extended he ran on well to win nicely by two- and three-quarter lengths in a promising performance. Favourite Fifrelet wasn’t hard pressed to open his account in the Bryan And Ilva Wescott Memorial Maiden Hurdle, with Ian Williams’ charge winning easily under five-pound claimer Liam Harrison. Despite jumping out to his left a few times and making a few mistakes, notably at the second
