LADBROKES ST LEGER FESTIVAL 2005
RACENEWS RACECOURSE SERVICE
DONCASTER, THIRD DAY, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9
GOING
The going remains unchanged after racing today - Good to soft, good in places.
Clerk of the course Jon Pullin said: “I shall leave things as they are overnight and see what the night brings as we are forecast some rain.”
CROWD
Today’s crowd came to 11,000, up 800 on the Friday total seen last year.
Steven Clarke, general manager of Doncaster Racecourse, said: “We were lucky with the weather today and this is the third day in a row that we have seen increases in attendances.”
Sir Michael Stoute’s Ladbrokes St Leger full training record
2004-2 Quiff
2004-4 Maraahel
2002-2 Highest
2002-6 Balakheri
2002-7 First Charter
2000-2 Air Marshall
2000-5 Dalampour
1999-7 Iscan
1998-5 Ta-Lim
1995-4 in Camera
1994-4 Sacrament
1993-4 Shareek
1991-2 Saddlers' Hall
1990-2 Hellenic
1988-4 Zaffaran
1986-3 Untold
1984-5 Shernazar
1983-8 Dazari
1982-15 Electric
1981-4 Shergar
1979-8 Reprocolor
1974-5 Abide With Me
THE 2005 LADBROKES ST LEGER DECLARED RUNNERS
Class 1, Group One, Total Prize fund £450,000. Doncaster, Saturday, September 10, 2005, 1m 6f 132yds. For three-year-olds only, entire colts and fillies. Weights: colts 9st; fillies 8st 11lb. Entries closed Wednesday, July 6, entries revealed Tuesday, July 12 (39 entries). Forfeit stage Tuesday, August 23 (10 remained), £25,000 supplementary entry stage Monday, September 5 (no extra entries received). Five-day confirmation stage Monday, September 5 (7 remained). Final 48-hour declaration stage 10.00am, Thursday, September 8 (Seven declared).
Form Horse Owner Trainer/Jockey
1) 13 AVALON Michael Tabor & Sue Magnier Aidan O'Brien IRE/ Jamie Spencer
2) 5-11 HARD TOP (IRE) Ballymacoll Stud Sir Michael Stoute/Ryan Moore
3) 6031652 HATTAN (IRE) Saeed Manana Clive Brittain/Alan Munro
4) 43-2104 KONG (IRE) Neil Jones John Dunlop/Richard Hughes
5) 12021 SCORPION (IRE) Sue Magnier & Michael Tabor Aidan O'Brien IRE/Frankie Dettori
6 01-41531 TAWQEET (USA) (v) Hamdan Al Maktoum John Dunlop/Richard Hills
11203112 THE GEEZER Jeff Smith David Elsworth/Richard Quinn
7 declared runners
2 Irish-trained
HOW LADBROKES’ ANTE POST BOOK HAS FARED
It sounds very odd to say that at least one firm of bookmakers will be cheering on the hot favourite Scorpion if he looks like winning the Ladbrokes St Leger tomorrow, all the more so if he was at one time a 16-1 shot and is now trading at odds on.
But that is exactly what the sponsors will be doing as their spokesman Balthazar Fabricius explains. “Although Scorpion has been favourite since he was second in the Irish Derby and an even hotter market leader since he won the Grand Prix de Paris, we have not laid any particularly big bets about him. There has been steady support for him, though he has not taken the public fancy due to his short odds, and he would be our biggest winner.”
Scorpion, a 16-1 shot when betting began, was cut to 3-1 after his fine effort at the Curragh and to 6-4 after his big Longchamp success.
At the other end of the scale,the horse Ladbrokes would least like to see win is Hard Top, who will end Sir Michael Stoute’s hoodoo over the classic if he is successful. He was put in at 33-1 when the book opened, but this was soon reduced to 14-1 and he was a 10-1 shot before he ran in the Great Voltigeur at York.
After Hard Top had beaten The Geezer in that traditional St Leger trial,his price was reduced to 6-1 and that has been gradually whittled away so that he is now down to 9-4. “If he wins he will cost us about Ù400,000,” explained Fabricius.
The Geezer, who was run out of the Voltigeur only well inside the final furlong, has been as high as 14-1 for the final classic but is now down to half that price. He has been the subject of a number of four figure bets and would be another loser for the book.
Of the others the only one to attract much interest is Tawqeet. “He was a 25-1 chance when he was put up by a tipping line a few weeks ago,” recalled Fabricius, “and we then cut him to 16-1. At one time he was as low as 12-1, but there has been little interest in him lately and he has wandered back out to 16-1.
Ladbrokes’ current betting is 5-6 Scorpion, 9-4 Hard Top, 6 The Geezer, 12 Avalon, 16 Tawqeet, 33 Kong, 50 Hattan.
WINNING QUOTES RACE ONE
orderIT-online.com CONDITIONS STAKES
“EASY MONEY”
“That was easy money,” enthused Saeed bin Suroor after Echo of Light had led from start to finish in the opening orderIT-online.com conditions stakes.
And rightly so, for Echo of Light and Kerrin McEvoy were in no sort of danger through the last two furlongs and won as they liked by seven lengths from the constantly chasing, even if increasingly remote, Khyber Kim.
Remarkably, the five runners raced in almost the same order throughout the race, the only change being when Blythe Knight took third place from Almuraad in the final furlong.
“This horse has improved all the time; after all of his races he has gone on to do better and I am sure he will continue to do so,” bin Suroor enthused.
“The only thing he has had to learn to do is to settle, but he is learning all the time.
“We will try something better with him next time, maybe a Listed race, and I am sure he will be an even better horse next year. I am sure that he will stay a mile and a half in due course, but there is no need to rush into stepping him up to that trip.”
Kerrin McEvoy added: “ Echo Of Light is still a big baby - a bit keen and what not. But he is coming on by leaps and bounds.”
GOING AFTER THE FIRST
Kerrin McEvoy, jockey of the impressive winner Echo Of Light in the first race, said the ground was “good to soft”.
Kieren Fallon thought that it was “not that bad, it has dried out since yesterday”
Jamie Spencer felt that the ground was “dead” as did Richard Hills, while Dane O’Neill described it as “good to soft”.
WINNING QUOTES RACE TWO
DBS ST LEGER YEARLING SALES STAKES
ON A WHIM
Owners and trainers, as they are sometimes prepared to admit, buy horses for the most ridiculous reasons, and Andrew Hollinrake’s purchase of Princess Cleo, winner of the DBS St Leger Yearling Sales Stakes, comes into that category.
“Some years ago I used to follow the fortunes of a mare called Classy Cleo,” he related, “and then when I was about to start looking at the catalogue which included Princess Cleo, it fell open at page 99 and that showed the filly by Mark of Esteem out of Classy Cleo. I decided there and then, on a whim, to buy her and I was able to get her for 24,000gns.”
Mr. Hollinrake is no stranger to racing success as the other horses he has owned include Regal Emperor and Misty Light, and he now has another big winner to add to his list of successes.
Princess Cleo has already ‘won’ once, as she passed the post first at Southwell in July only to be disqualified. Her trainer Tim Easterby was so disenchanted by that decision that he lodged an unsuccessful appeal, and even now he still considers the disqualification “a disgrace”.
Princess Cleo had hung to her left in that and other races and she was inclined to do so again here, but Easterby feels that she was simply following the leader, Sir Orpen, whom she eventually passed to win by a length and a half.
“I like these sales races,” said Easterby. “I won the senior section of this race a few years ago with Somnus, but this is the first time I have won the reserves’ race.”
WINNING QUOTES RACE THREE
LADBROKES MALLARD HANDICAP
SENDINTANK NOW FAVOURITE FOR CESAREWITCH
Sendintank became favourite for the totesport Cesarewitch after his determined and successful effort to peg back the long time leader Cristoforo in the Ladbrokes Mallard Handicap.
His odds vary from Coral’s 6-1(from 10-1), the 7-1 (from 10) of Hills, the 8-1, also from 10-1, of the sponsors to the 9-1 (from 12-1) of Paddy Power.
It might be worth bearing in mind, though, that Sendintank ran today only after there was enough rain to satisfy his trainer Stuart Williams. “He definitely would not have run if it had not rained; that is why I left him in tomorrow, in case the rain came later than had been forecast.
“I very much doubt if he will now run again tomorrow, but I shall have to talk to his owners Steve Jones and Phil McGovern before we make a final decision,” said the trainer.
“I very much doubt if he will run again before the Cesarewitch, not least because there is nothing really suitable to run him in,” Williams added. “I would like to think that this could be the start of a roll like he enjoyed last backend.
“For a horse who stays as well as he does he travels very well through his races, but he has just been a bit unlucky with some of his recent runs with the ground and the draw going against him.”
WINNING QUOTES RACE FOUR
intercasino.com CHAMPAGNE STAKES
SILENT TIMES SO CLOSE TO CLOSE TO YOU
After minutes peering at photographs and a screen judge Brian Goodwill was unable to separate Close To You (8/1) and Silent Times (6/1) at the end of the intercasino.com Champagne Stakes and was forced to call a dead-heat between the pair, the first dead-heat in the race for 101 years and the third in all.
The outcome promoted 2,000 Guineas thoughts in the camps of both horses, though in the case of Silent Times he is on the market and any Newmarket decision may not be that of owner John Fretwell and trainer Eoghan O’Neill. Cashmans offer 66-1 about him for Newmarket.
Silent Times, who was winning for the second time in five starts, set out to make all the running, and his trainer is sure that this is the way to ride him. “He has a great, long stride on him and works on his own at home, so I am sure that it was the right thing to do to let him go along in front,” said O’Neill, whose first Doncaster winner this was.
“And I am very glad to have been able to give a nice winner like this to Jamie Spencer, who has been very helpful in coming to ride work for us.
“That is our 30th winner of the season and we have been busy buying at the sales across the road, where we have got 16 so far.”
It was in that ring that Silent Times was bought for 26,000gns 12 months ago.
Richard Ryan, assistant to Close To You’s trainer Terry Mills, very nearly pulled the colt out after the rain softened the ground. “It was only because of his draw that I didn’t,” he said, “but that is the last time he will race on ground as soft as that.
“It was entirely down to the ground, which was tacky and holding, that he ran so badly in the Solario, but he has been flying at home against older horses and he is a monster.
“He may run in the Dewhurst if the ground is right, but he will definitely be trained for the Guineas and there would be no problem in him running in that first time out.”
Close To You, a 40,000gns Newmarket purchase last year, is shared by his trainer with Miss Jane Leighs, and has now won four times from six starts.
Richard Hannon, whose Cool Creek was a length and three-quarters and a short-head (9/4 favourite Killybegs was third) back in fourth, is adamant that is colt should have beaten both the dead-heaters. “Every time he tried for a run he was stopped and I am sure he should have won,” he said.
WINNING QUOTES RACE FIVE
DONCASTER AUDI TROY STAKES
MUBTAKER STILL GOING STRONG
Mubtaker may be eight years old but he is still a force to be reckoned with, as he showed when making all the running against sole rival Brahminy Kite in the Doncaster Audi Troy Stakes.
Brahminy Kite mounted a challenge inside the last two furlongs, but Mubtaker was up to all his opponent could produce and he ran strongly to win by four lengths.
This was the 11th win of his 25 start career, which includes three in the Geoffrey Freer Stakes at Newbury.
“I think the Irish St Leger will come too soon for him, but the Cumberland Lodge could be a good race to try for,” said Richard Hills, retained jockey for the old horse’s owner, Sheikh Hamdan al Maktoum.
“The trouble is with him is that he is so hard to keep sound that you cannot plan too far ahead, but I would think that the Cumberland Lodge would fit in well if he is all right at the time. There is also a race in Italy that we could consider.”
WINNING QUOTES RACE SIX
COMMUNITY UNION REPRESENTING BETTING SHOP STAFF HANDICAP
REVERENCE MAKING UP FOR LOST TIME
Reverence, racing for only the fourth time at the age of four with all the runs having come this season, made his tally two from those four attempts when he got the better of Golden Dixie in the Community Union Representing Betting Shop Staff Handicap.
“I have only had him this year,” said Eric Alston, who trains the winner for breeders Gary and Lesley Middlebrook. They are en route to America where they are selling a yearling at Keeneland.
“I am not quite sure exactly why he did not run in the two previous seasons, but I believe that he may have cracked his pelvis each year.
“I think a bit of him, but after he was second at Thirsk on his first run I felt that he was not quite right and so I gave him a long break before he won at Ripon.
“Then when he ran at Newmarket over six furlongs last time he looked all over a winner with a furlong to go, only to stop to nothing up the hill. I don’t think he will run over six furlongs again.
“He is really pretty inexperienced and that was only the second time he had been competitive in a race. When he was second he raced on the far side from most of the others and led that group with the winner on the other side, and then when he won he made all on his side.”
SAVAGE SUSPENDED
Mark Savage, who rode the runner-up Golden Dixie, was suspended for two days (September 20 and 21) for causing interference to Peopleton Brook, who finished last but two.
WINNING QUOTES RACE SEVEN
WILFREDA BEEHIVE TROPHY
AT LAST FOR ELLIOTS WORLD
Elliots World, who has been running very consistently without being able to get his head in front, finally gained the victory his good efforts deserved when he beat Subpoena and the one-time classic hopeful Rob Roy in the closing Wilfreda Beehive Trophy.
“His trouble is that he cannot hit the front too soon, but time after time this season he seems to have found himself in the lead before we wanted and something has come and beaten him. It has all been so very frustrating,” said Deirdre Johnston, whose husband Mark trains the winner.
“He was in two races today and two tomorrow and I ummed and erred for ages before deciding which one to run him in. Luckily I got that right, which is a big relief.
“He is in the big handicap at Newbury next weekend and he is in the Cambridgeshire. The Newbury race might come too soon, but we shall obviously look at both of them.”
This was the second winner of the day, and first outright success, for John Egan, who had earlier partnered Close To You in that thrilling dead-heat with Silent Times for the intercasino.com Champagne Stakes.
BETTING NEWS
With the overnight rain changing the ground and producing nine non-runners, things have been fairly quiet in the offices this morning, but punters have still been prepared to take a view and the Ladbrokes Mallard Handicap (2.45) has been particularly popular with no fewer than three horses coming in for good support.
That trio includes Sendintank, who was starting a roll at about this time last year and whose trainer made the point overnight that he would not run unless there was sufficient rain.
There clearly has been, so totesport punters have latched on to the five-year-old and forced him in to 100-30 from 4-1. In the same race the firm has also had money for My Immortal, who has been trimmed from 6-1 to 11-2.
The third Mallard runner to have caught the public fancy is Bay Story, who has been in demand with Cashmans and has been brought in from 11-2 to 9-2.
We had a turn-up in the two-year-old sales race earlier in the week with success for the 20-1 shot Johnny The Fish, and there could be a similar shock in today’s reserve version of that race, the DBS St Leger Yearling Stakes (2.10), if those who have supported Imperial Sword from 20-1 to 16-1 with Cashmans are right.
The Irish firm has also been doing business in the feature event of the day, the intercasino.com Champagne Stakes (3.20) and have brought in the unbeaten Killybegs from 11-4 to 5-2.
GOING NEWS AT 10 AM
After the rain yesterday, the going for the third day of the Ladbrokes St Leger Festival is now
GOOD TO SOFT, GOOD IN PLACES.
“We had seven millimetres of rain during racing yesterday and another seven between then and midnight, though it has been dry since then,” said clerk of the course Jon Pullin.
“The going where the track runs parallel to the Bawtry Road is good to soft, but there is some good ground on the bends before the home straight, and in the straight the sides of the track have drier ground than the centre of the course.
“The forecast is for a dry day, but more rain is forecast for tonight. There will be some heavy bursts in that rain, but it is a bit hit or miss where it is going to land. If we have just the ordinary rain we shall be back where we are today, but if we get one of the heavy bursts the ground may be softer.”
FIRST RACE RESULT
1.40pm ORDERIT-ONLINE.COM CONDITIONS STAKES
£20,000 guaranteed, 1m 2f 60yds, for 3,4 & 5-y-o Penalty values: 1st: £11,600; 2nd: £4,400; 3rd: £2,200; 4th: £1,000; 5th: £500
1) ECHO OF LIGHT (Godolphin) Saeed Bin Suroor 3-8-11 Kerrin McEvoy [3] 9/4 Fav
2) KHYBER KIM (Caroline Mould) Henry Candy 3-8-11 Dane O’Neill [1] 8/1
3) BLYTHE KNIGHT (Mohammed Jaber) Ed Dunlop 5-9-02 Kieren Fallon [4]
4) ECOMIUM (Fieldspring Racing) Jeremy Noseda 4-9-02 Jamie Spencer [5]
5) ALMURAAD (Hamdan Al Maktoum Sir Michael Stoute 4-9-02 Richard Hills [2]
5 ran
Breeder: Kilcarn Stud Breeding: b c Dubai Millennium - Spirit Of Tara (IRE)
Distances:7, 3, 2.5, sh Time: 2m 6.66s
Totes: Win: £2.60 Places: £1.50, £2.40, Exacta: £10.70
Winning trainer:-Name: bin Suroor, Saeed Trains at Newmarket for Godolphin, the racing entity of Sheikh Mohammed, whose horses winter in Dubai and race worldwide. First Winner In England: Classic Cliche (Dante Stakes, May 17, 1995, York) British Classic wins: (10) UltimatePoker.com 2000 Guineas (1996 Mark of Esteem, 1999 Island Sands), UltimatePoker.com 1000 Guineas (1998 Cape Verdi, 2002 Kazzia), Vodafone Oaks (1995 Moonshell; 2002 Kazzia); Vodafone Derby (1995 Lammtarra); St Leger (1995 Classic Cliche; 1998 Nedawi; 1999 Mutafaweq) Other major wins include:American Oaks (2002 Jilbab), Ascot Gold Cup (1996 Classic Cliche; 1998 Kayf Tara, 2000 Kayf Tara, 2005 Papineau), Beldame Stakes (2002 Imperial Gesture), Breeders Cup Turf (2001 Fantastic Light), Canadian International Stakes (2000 Mutafaweq), Derby Italiano (1998 Central Park, 1999 Mukhalif), Deutschlandpreis (2000 Mutafaweq, 2002 Marienbard), Dubai Sheema Classic (2003 Sulamani), Dubai World Cup (2000 Dubai Millennium, 2002 Street Cry, 2003 Moon Ballad), Eclipse (1995,1996 Halling; 1998 Daylami; 2004 Refuse To Bend), Flower Bowl Invitational Stakes (2002 Kazzia), French 2000 Guineas (1995 Vettori; 2000 Bachir; 2001 Noverre, 2005 Shamardal), Gazelle Handicap (2002 Imperial Gesture), Gran Premio di Milano (2003 Leadership), Arlington Million (2003 Sulamani), Gran Premio Del Jockey Club (2001 Kutub), Prix du Moulin de Longchamp (2001 Slickly), Grosser Bugatti Preis (2002 Marienbard, 2003 Mamool), Grosser Dallmayr Preis (2001 Kutub), Hong Kong Cup (2000 Fantastic Light), Irish St Leger (1998 & 1999 Kayf Tara), Irish Champion Stakes (1994 Cezanne; 1998 Swain, 2001 Fantastic Light, 2002 Grandera), Irish 2000 Guineas (2000 Bachir, 2005 Dubawi), Irish Derby (1994 Balanchine), Juddmonte International Stakes (1995 & 1996 Halling, 2001 Sakhee, 2004 Sulamani), King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes (1995 Lammtarra; 1997 & 1998 Swain, 1999 Daylami, 2004 Doyen), Lockinge Stakes (1998 Cape Cross, 1999 Fly To The Stars, 2000 Aljabr),Man O’ War Stakes (1998 Daylami; 2000 Fantastic Light), Nunthorpe Stakes (1995 So Factual), Preis Von Europa (2001 Kutub, 2003 Mamool), Premio Vittorio Di Capua (2001 and 2002 Slickly), Prince of Wales’s Stakes (1998 Faithful Son, 2000 Dubai Millennium, 2001 Fantastic Light, 2002 Grandera), Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe (1995 Lammtarra, 2001 Sakhee, 2002 Marienbard); Prix de la Salamandre (1998 Aljabr), Prix Jean Prat (1998 Almutawakel), Prix d’Ispahan (1996 Halling, 2002 Best Of The Bests), Prix Vermeille (2003 Mezzo Soprano), Prix Jacques le Marois (1999 Dubai Millennium, 2000 Muhtathir), Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (1996 Mark Of Esteem, 1999 Dubai Millennium, 2001 Summoner), Queen Anne Stakes (2003 Dubai Destination), Singapore Airlines International Cup (2002 Grandera), Stanley Leisure Sprint Cup (1999 Diktat), Stephen Foster Handicap (2002 Street Cry), Sussex Stakes (1999 Aljabr, 2001 Noverre) Tattersalls Gold Cup (2001 Fantastic Light), Turf Classic Invitational (2003 Sulamani), Vodafone Coronation Cup (1999 Daylami, 2001 Mutafaweq) Wins in a season (1995-2004) 14:48:41:38:41:22:24:21:23:115
Winning jockey:-Name: Kerrin McEvoy Born: Streaky Bay, Australia Background: Father Philip was a jockey - he hails from the fishing hamlet of Streaky Bay, six hours west of Adelaide in Australia. He has partnered winners worldwide, has ridden in Dubai for the past three winters and also in Hong Kong. Appointed number two rider behind Frankie Dettori for Godolphin in March 2004. Big Race Victories: St Leger (2004 Rule Of Law), Grosser Preis von Baden (2004 & 2005 Warrsan), Melbourne Cup (2000 Brew - second-youngest jockey to ever win Australia's premier race),St James’s Palace Stakes (2005 Shamardal) First Ride In Britain: Realism, Haydock, Saturday, May 1, 2004, Freephone Stanleybet Flat vJump Jockeys Handicap, 3rd First Winner In Britain: Destination Dubai, Haydock, Saturday, May 1, 2004, stanleybet.com Maiden Stakes First Classic Ride In Britain: Sundrop, Sunday, May 2, 2004, Newmarket, UltimateBet.com 1000 Guineas (2nd) Wins in 2004: 44
SECOND RACE RESULT
2.10pm DBS ST LEGER YEARLING STAKES
£54,000 guaranteed minimum, for 2yo which were declared to run, but were eliminated at the overnight declaration stage from the 2005 £300,000 St Leger Yearling Stakes (nb entry will be limited to the first 22 horses eliminated from that race). 6f. Weights: colts & geldings 8st 11lb; fillies 8st 6lb. Penalties: a winner of a Class/Category C race 3lb; of a Listed rac Penalty values: 1st: £27,000; 2nd: £10,800; 3rd: £5,400; 4th: £2,700; 5th: £1,350; 6th: £1,350
1) PRINCESS CLEO (Widdop Wanderers) Tim Easterby 2-8-06 Richard Quinn [5] 20/1
2) SIR ORPEN (Owen Boyle) David Barron 2-8-11 Jamie Spencer [7] 10/1
3) HILL OF ALMHUIM (F D C Partnership) Karl Burke v2-8-11 Frannie Norton [18] 20/1
4) THE LONDON GANG (D Healy) David Evans v2-8-11 Pat Cosgrave [1]
5) IMPERIAL SWORD (J Stephenson) David Barron b1 2-8-11 Paul Fessey [16]
6) HOTHAM (Paul & Linda Dixon) Henry Candy 2-8-11 Dane O’Neill [2]
7) DAMELZA (Salifix) Tim Easterby 2-8-06 David Allan [21]
8) JOHN KEATS (Sheikh Mohammed) John Gosden b1 2-8-11 Kerrin McEvoy [10]
9) KOROLIEVA (Angie Bailey) Kevin Ryan 2-8-07 (inc 1lbow) Neil Callan [19]
10) SUN CATCHER (A F Merritt) Richard Hannon 2-8-11 Darryll Holland [20]
11) AMBER GLORY (Wooster Partnership) Kevin Ryan 2-8-06 Adrian Nicholls [8]
12) NIOBE (H E Sheikh Rashid Bin Mohammed) Bryan Smart 2-8-06 Ted Durcan [13] 11/2 fav
13) HARDY NORSEMAN (The Boysdayout Partnership) William Jarvis 2-8-11 Alan Munro [12]
14) DANISH EXPRESS (Pay & Play) Peter Winkworth 2-8-11 John Egan [4]]
15) BUTTERFLY BUD (The Butterfly Racing Club) Nigel Tinkler 2-8-11Kim Tinkler [11]
16) LYNDALEE (Jean Connew) Tim Easterby 2-8-06 Kevin Darley [3]
17) HOWARDS PRINCE (Gordon McDowell) Ian Semple p2-8-11 Tom Eaves [6]
18) MONTZANDO (The Links Partnership) Rod Millman b1 2-8-11 Steve Drowne [14]
19) CAPE GOLD (The Dandy Dons Partnership) Richard Fahey 2-8-11 Paul Hanagan [9]
19 ran NR no 4) GO FIGURE, no 17) CHEAP N CHIC & withdrawn not under starters orders no 14)TEN TO THE DOZEN.
Winning trainer:- Name: Easterby, Tim Date of first licence: 1995. Previously assistant to father Peter Easterby Trains at Habton Grange, Malton, North Yorkshire Classic Wins (1): St Leger (2002 Bollin Eric) Major wins:Duke Of York Stakes (1998 Bollin Joanne), Golden Jubilee Stakes (2004 Fayr Jag), Hilary Needler Trophy (1998 Flanders; 2001 Good Girl; 2002 On The Brink), Lowther Stakes (1999 Jemima), Prix de la Foret (2004 Somnus), Prix Maurice de Gheest (2004 Somnus), Queen Mary Stakes (2000 Romantic Myth), Stanley Leisure Sprint Cup (2000 Pipalong, 2003 Somnus), Stewards’ Cup (2001 Guineau Hunter), Tote Festival Handicap (1997 Jo Mell), Weatherbys Super Sprint Stakes (1998 Flanders), Windsor Castle Stakes (1998 Flanders), Wokingham Stakes (2003 Fayr Fag) Wins (1995-2004): 29: 34: 54: 62: 58: 73: 81: 140:58:62 Horses in training (1996-2005): 60: 68: 101: 85: 109: 138: 125; 140; 93; 153
Winning jockey:-Name: Quinn, Thomas Richard. Born: Stirling, Scotland, 2/12/61 Apprenticeship: With Paul Cole, First winner: Bolivar Baby (Kempton, October 21, 1981) Wins 1984-2004: 62,47,69,55,46,63,90,99,117,123,115,111,149,74,108,151,140,116,104,82, 76 Classic wins: (3) St Leger (1990 Snurge, 2000 Millenary), Vodafone Oaks (2000 Love Divine) Other major wins include: Cheveley Park Stakes (1989 Pass The Peace, 1999 Seazun); Derby Italiano (1987 Zaizoom, 1994 Time Star); Dewhurst Stakes (1990 Generous); Fillies Mile’ (1991 Culture Vulture), Grand Prix de Paris (2000 Beat Hollow), Irish Oaks (1990 Knight's Baroness), Irish St Leger (1990 Ibn Bey, 1995 Strategic Choice), Lockinge Stakes (1988 Broken Hearted, 1996 Soviet Line), Poule d’Essai des Poulains (1992 Culture Vulture), Prix Royal Oak (1992 Assessor), Rothmans International (1992 Snurge), Royal Hunt Cup (1986 Patriach, 2004 Mine), Yorkshire Oaks (1987 Bint Pasha)
1) SENDINTANK (Steve Jones & Phil McGovern) Stuart Williams 5-9-04 Jamie Spencer [5] 100/30 fav
2) CRISTOFORO (Patsy Byrne) Barney Curley 8-9-00 Tom Queally [1] 11/1
3) LOST SOLDIER THREE (Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum) Luca Cumani 4-10-00 Kieren Fallon [8] 8/1
4) MOST DEFINITELY (B Batey) Tim Easterby 5-8-12 David Allan [12]
5) ODIHAM(D L Brooks, J F Dean, Mrs J Scott) Hughie Morrison v1 4-8-07 Travis Block (7) [4]
6) BAY STORY (Gainsborough Stud) Mark Johnston b3-8-09 Joe Fanning [9]
7) ALFIE NOAKES (G C Stevens) Amanda Perrett 3-8-00 Paul Hanagan [7]
8) CAMROSE (Nicholas Cooper) John Dunlop b4-9-05 Steve Drowne [3]
9) GROUP CAPTAIN (Speedlith Group) Sylvester Kirk 3-8-00(inc 2lb ow) Chris Catlin [11]
10) MY IMMORTAL (Mrs D Snowden, Carlini & Kirk) John Gosden 3-7-12 David Kinsella [13]
11) NATIONAL TRUST (Cheveley Park Stud) Sir Michael Stoute 3-8-01 Frannie Norton [2]
12) MIDAS WAY (Alexandra Chandris) Patrick Chamings v1 5-9-11 Neil Callan [6]
12 ran NR no 8) ESCAYOLA
Breeder: K G Powter Breeding: ch g Halling (USA) - Colleville
Distances: .75, 2, 1, sh, 2.5, .75, 6, .5, 1, 1.75, 25 Time: 3m 6.36s
Totes: Win: £3.50 Places: £1.70, £2.50, £2.50, Exacta: £34.30
Winning trainer:-Name: Williams, Stuart Charles Based: Newmarket, Suffolk Born: July 31, 1964 Date of First Trainer’s Licence: February 1994 Major Races Won: Bradford & Bingley Rated H’cap (1996 and 1997) Horses in training (2001-05): 36; 36; 37; 36; 46 Wins 2001-2004: 23; 18; 20; 32
Winning jockey:-Name: Spencer, James (Jamie) Peter Date of Birth: 08/06/1980 British Classic Wins: St Leger (2003 Brian Boru) Major wins include: William Hill Sprint Cup (2005 Goodricke), Falmouth Stakes (2003 Macadamia), Irish 1,000 Guineas (1998 Tarascon, 2002 Gossamer), Jockey Club Stakes (2002 Marienbard), Moyglare Stud Stakes (2000 Sequoyah), Nunthorpe Stakes (2002 Kyllachy), Weatherbys Champion Bumper (2002 Pizarro) Wins in Britain (1998-2004):3,8,78,112,86,102, 27 Other details: Champion apprentice in Ireland 1999. Stable jockey to Aidan O’Brien in 2004, now freelance in Britain
FOURTH RACE RESULT
3.20pm intercasino.com CHAMPAGNE STAKES
Group Two, £100,000, for 2yo colts & geldings only, 7f. Weights 8st 10lb. Penalties: a winner of a Group 3 race 3lb; of a Group 1 or 2 race 5lb. Penalty values: 1st: £58,000; 2nd: £22,000; 3rd: £11,000; 4th: £5,00; 5th:£2,500; 6th:£1,500
1) CLOSE TO YOU (Miss J A Leighs) Terry Mills 2-8-10 John Egan [8] 8/1
1) SILENT TIMES (John Fretwell) Eoghan O’Neill IRE 2-8-10 Jamie Spencer [6] 6/1
3) KILLYBEGS (John Grant & D M James) Barry Hills 2-8-10 Michael Hills [3] 9/4 Fav
4) COOL CREEK Richard Hannon 2-8-1 0Dane O’Neill [7]
5) AMIGONI (sue Magnier & Michael Tabor) Aidan O’Brien IRE 2-8-13 Kieren Fallon [2]
6) LAKE POET (Mohammed Rashid) Clive Brittain 2-8-10 Kerrin McEvoy [5]
7) WEST OF AMARILLO (HRH Princess Haya Of Jordan) John Gosden 2-8-10 Kevin Darley [1]
7 ran NR no 6) PALACE EPISODE
Close To You Breeder: Dominic Toole Breeding: b c Shinko Forest (IRE) - Maritana (USA)
Silent Times Breeder: Jacir Vitorino Breeding:b or br c Danehill Dancer (IRE) - Recoleta (USA)
Distances: dh, 1.75, sh, 1.5, 4, 1.5 Time: 1m 26.62s
Totes: Win: £5.20 & £3.90 Places: £3.60, £3, Exacta: £27 & £31.30
Winning trainer:-Name: Mills, Terrence George Date of first licence: 1993;Wins in a season: (1993-2004) 9:15:9:17:7:11:22:23:34:35:27:19 Horses in training (1993-2005):26:24:32:24:23:25:35:42:41:43:49:?:40 Major wins include: Hardwicke Stakes (1994 Bobzao); Kings Stand Stakes (1999 Mitcham), Royal Hunt Cup (2002 Norton), Tattersalls Sommerville Stakes (2001 Where Or When), Hong Kong Jockey Club Sprint (2002 Boleyn Castle), Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (2002 Where Or When) Trains at Loretta Lodge, at Epsom
Winning trainer:-Name: Eoghan O’Neill Based: Jamesfield Place, Hamilton Road, Newmarket, Suffolk Born: January 17, 1971 Date of First Trainer’s Licence: December 1999 Big Races Won: C. L. Weld Park Stakes (2001 Red Rioja); Preis Der WGZ Dusseldorf (2000 Yorba Linda) First Winner: Billy Bathwick (Cat, Egremont Median Auction Maiden Stakes, Carlisle, June 29, 2000)First Winner for John Fretwell: Memphis Man (Royal Bank Of Scotland Median Auction Maiden Stakes, Musselburgh, April 29, 2005)
Winning jockey: John Egan Date Of birth: 24/5/68 Date & Place of first winner: Celtic Match, Mallow, August 1984 Big Race Wins Include: Ayr Gold Cup (1998 Always Alight), Irish 2000 Guineas (2003 Indian Haven), Tote International (2002 Crystal Castle), Darley July Cup (2005 Pastoral Pursuits) Wins (1995-2004): 9,36,63,46,70,43,-,31,61,63
Winning jockey:-Name: Spencer, James (Jamie) Peter Date of Birth: 08/06/1980 British Classic Wins: St Leger (2003 Brian Boru) Major wins include: William Hill Sprint Cup (2005 Goodricke), Falmouth Stakes (2003 Macadamia), Irish 1,000 Guineas (1998 Tarascon, 2002 Gossamer), Jockey Club Stakes (2002 Marienbard), Moyglare Stud Stakes (2000 Sequoyah), Nunthorpe Stakes (2002 Kyllachy), Weatherbys Champion Bumper (2002 Pizarro) Wins in Britain (1998-2004):3,8,78,112,86,102, 27 Other details: Champion apprentice in Ireland 1999. Stable jockey to Aidan O’Brien in 2004, now freelance in Britain
FIFTH RACE RESULT
3.55pm DONCASTER AUDI TROY STAKES
Listed Race, £30,000, for 3yo+ which have not won a Group One or Group Two Pattern race in 2005.
1) MUBTAKER (Hamdan Al Maktoum) Marcus Tregoning 8-9-06 Richard Hills [4] 30/100 fav
2) BRAHMINY KITE (Gainsborough Stud) Mark Johnston v1 3-8-06 Kevin Darley [1] 11/4
2 ran NR no 2) ASIAN HEIGHTS, no 3) COMPTON BOLTER & no 4) PERSIAN MAJESTY.
Winning trainer:-Name: Tregoning, Marcus Philip Born: July 31, 1959 Based: Kingwood House Stables, Lambourn, Berkshire Riding Career: Point-to-Points Date of First Trainer’s Licence: 1997. Previously assistant-trainer to Major Dick Hern for 14 years. Winners 1997-2004: 0; 13; 26; 21; 53; 32; 56; 26 Big Race Wins: Princess Elizabeth Stakes (2001 Sheppard’s Watch), Select Stakes (2000 Ekraar, 2001 Nayef), Champagne Lanson Vintage Stakes (1999 Ekraar), Cumberland Lodge Stakes (2001 Nayef), Dubai Champion Stakes (2001 Nayef), Dubai Sheema Classic (2002 Nayef), Newmarket Stakes (2002 Highdown), Juddmonte International Stakes (2002 Nayef), Prix Guillaume d’Ornano (2002 Highdown), Geoffrey Freer Stakes (2002 Mubtaker), Royal Lodge Stakes (2003 Snow Ridge), Letheby & Christopher Predominate Stakes (2003 High Accolade, 2004 Manyana) Horses in Training 2001-05: 88; 113; 122; 133; 139
Winning jockey:-Name: Hills, Richard John. Born: Newmarket, 22/1/63 Apprenticeship: With Tom Jones. First winner: Border Dawn (Doncaster 26/10/79) Classic wins: (5) 1000 Guineas (1995 Harayir, 2000 Lahan), 2000 Guineas (2004 Haafhd), St Leger (1999 Mutafaweq), Vodafone Oaks (2005 Eswarah) Other major wins: Autumn Stakes (2000 Nayef), Champion Stakes (2001 Nayef), Chesham Stakes (1996 Shamikh), Dubai World Cup (1999 Almutawakel), Falmouth Stakes (2000 Alshakr, 2002 Tashawak), Geoffrey Freer Stakes (2002 Mubtaker), German Oaks (2002 Salve Regina), Great Voltigeur Stakes (2002 Bandari), Greenham Stakes (2001 Munir), Hungerford Stakes (1998 Muhtathir), Juddmonte International Stakes (2002 Nayef), July Cup (1998 Elnadim), Middle Park Stakes (1997 Hayil), Norfolk Stakes (1986 Sizzling Melody, 1989 Pettilante), Princess Of Wales’s Stakes (1994 Wagon Master; 2001 Mutamam; 2004 Bandari), Queen Mary Stakes (1997 Nadwah), Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (1994 Maroof, 2001 Summoner); Rockfel Stakes (1999 Lahan); Royal Lodge Stakes (1998 Mutaahab, 2002 Al Jadeed), Select Stakes (2000 Ekraar, 2001 Nayef), September Stakes (2000 Mutamam); Temple Stakes (1999 Tipsy Creek); Watership Down Stud Sales Race (2002 Sharplaw Venture), Yorkshire Cup (1985 Ilium) Wins (1990-2004):56, 67,52,57,59,70,71,85,83,77,81,79,81,75,66 Other details: Took over as number one jockey to Hamdan Al Maktoum on the retirement of Willie Carson.
SIXTH RACE RESULT
4.30pm COMMUNITY UNION REPRESENTING BETTING SHOP STAFF HANDICAP
£10,000, 5f, Penalty Values 1st £6,500, 2nd £2,000, 3rd £1,000, 4th £500.
1) REVERENCE (Gary & Lesley Middlebrook) Eric Alston 4-8-06 Kevin Darley [11] 6/1 fav
2) GOLDEN DIXIE (Vicki Davies) Ron Harris 6-8-12 Mark Savage (3) [12] 8/1
3) PLAYFUL DANE (Ann & David Bell) Scott Cunningham 8-9-01 Daniel Tudhope (3) [6] 16/1
4) TROJAN FLIGHT (Timothy O’Gram) Lynda Ramsden 4-8-10 Alan Munro [15] 8/1
5) MALAPROPISM (Michael Foy) Mick Channon 5-9-04 John Egan [1]
6) GRIGOROVITCH (Newkeylets) Ian Semple 3-8-09 Tom Eaves [14]
7) CEREBUS (Paul Dixon) Mark Polglase b3-8-03 Chris Catlin [2]
8) FRASCATI (Lord Crawshaw) Alan Berry 5-8-10 Frannie Norton [18]
9) JOHNNY PARKES (Joseph Heller) Henry Candy 4-8-13 Dane O’Neill [20]
10) PLATEAU (Ian Hewitson) David Nicholls 6-9-01 Adrian Nicholls [10]
11) MATTY TUN (Mrs O Tunstall) John Balding 6-9-03 Darryll Holland [5]
12) PICCLED (The Pain & Heartache Partnership) Eric Alston 7-8-11 Graham Gibbons [4]
13) RYEDANE (Ryedale Partners No 5) Tim Easterby e/s1 3-9-00 David Allan [16]
14) HENRY HALL (James & Susan Marshall) Nigel Tinkler 9-8-06 Kim Tinkler [3]
15) ABSENT FRIENDS (Jo Hardy) John Balding e/s1 8-8-06 Kerrin McEvoy [17]
16) PEOPLETON BROOK (G S Thompson & P Banfield) Milton Bradley 3-8-13 Neil Callan [13]
17) THE JOBBER (A R B & Mrs C J Ward) Michael Blanshard 4-9-04 Ted Durcan [8]
18) MUSICAL FAIR (P And Partnership) Jeremy Glover 5-8-04 Paul Hanagan [9]
18 ran NR no 5) ONE WAY TICKET and no 12) HARRY UP
Breeder: Gary & Lesley Middlebrook Breeding: ch g Mark Of Esteem (IRE) - Imperial Bailiwick (IRE)
Distances: nk, 1.5. 1.5, 1.5, nk, sh, 1.25, .5, 1.25, 1, nk, .5, .75, 1.75, sh, .75, 6.
Time: 59.17s
Totes: Win: £7.30 Places: £2.70, £2.60, £5.20, £2.40 Exacta: £70.50
SEVENTH RACE RESULT
5.05pm WILFREDA BEEHIVE TROPHY
