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MARTIN DAWES

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WE HOPE THAT YOU ALL HAVE AN ENJOYABLE AND SUCCESSFUL DAY’S RACIN

OUR NEXT MEETING

TUESDAY 18TH APRIL

We were treated to an excellent final meeting in October of last year A lot happened since day in the National Hunt world and we think it best that we cast our minds back six months to get us in the mood for today’s racing.

Harry Fry kicked things off with his very promising novice Gin Coco. The son Cokoriko was an easy winner on hurdles return after he was last seen finishing in a valuable handicap at Punchestown. The loose horse American Sniper tried to make his life difficult up the run in but victory was never really in doubt and he ran home a ready winner He went onto run a nice race behind the very talented I Like To Move It before disappointing a little at Cheltenham, the testing ground may well have blunted his speed and no doubt he will put that run well behind him.

Our second race of the day was another novice event but this time for the chasers. Bells Of Peterboro was well fancied but it went the way of Potters Venture and Harry Kimber. Keiran Burkes’s charge hadn’t shown he was quote up to the level in his previous five runs over fences but was picked up for a cut price deal in May. It proved to be a shrewd purchase and victory never really looked in any doubt off the back of a 144-day absence. The very talented Umbrigado battled back brave-ly under top take our competitive class handicap. m

Scudamore was all action once he hit the front and despite doing an awful front, he just held on from the late challenge of Valentino. David Pipe’s Umbrigado was winless since March 2021 and the refitting of cheekpieces could well have made the difference on the eight-yearold.

Sailing Grace faced four rivals in a tricky looking Junior National Hunt Novice Hurdle. Him Malaya was well fancied for the Paul Nicholls yard but made a few bad mistakes, which ultimately cost him come the business end. Jupiter Allen took a keen hold in rear but made good progress after the fifth, he made a mistake two out, which handed the initiative to Sailing Grace. The latter needed no second invitation and kept on well under Ben Godfrey to claim the prize for Anthony Honeyball. Wavering Down travelled strongly into the contest under Rex Dingle and once shaken up went away readily. He had failed to get competitive on his two previous starts over fences and hadn’t been seen since March. Freshness is clearly the key to this horse as he’s won well off a break in the past. Sabrina put in a pleasing per-formance after a 196-day break and went onto win later in the season at Exeter in fine style.

Pic D’Orhy took our feature race for Nicholls and Cobden. The classy seven-year-old was always in and despite lot of weight there was only ever going to be one winner

Kissesforkatie made a nice start to chasing against her more experienced rival and went onto win on her next start at Fontwell. Boothill was a useful hurdler but fences look to be the making of him.

Harry Fry made it two winners on the day with his eight-year-old, who travelled powerfully into the contest before putting the race to bed in better style than the winning margin suggested.

Our finale was taken by the Moore’s and their runner Madaa. The form of his Warwick race wouldn’t have blown you away but he had certainly improved for that run and won with a fair amount of authority.