Weekend action - hello again, swamp donkeys
Only MAGICO turned out for Richard Guest on Saturday, in the 2m 4.5f novices' handicap chase. He was thrown right into the race four from home but could once again only continue at the one pace on ground which was pretty much ideal. However, he put in a perfectly tidy round of jumping on this, just his second outing over fences, and I wonder if, with his absence of extra gears pretty evident now, he should be stepped up to 3 miles where this is potentially less of a problem.
There were no winners from Guest's seven-strong raiding party to Carlisle on Sunday, but there were some pretty encouraging runs in the main on ground barely raceable. SHEM DYLAN is not included in that statement, as he emphatically failed to win the 2m 4f novices' hurdle for Paul Beck and Guest for the second year out of three (ONE DAY took this on debut in 2003). He has now run enough times to get a handicap mark, but his pulled-up effort here offered no encouragement that he'll be scoring once moved into that discipline.
WHY THE LONG FACE's form in handicap hurdles has been ordinary to say the least this time, but he seemed lit up by the desperate ground and ultra-stiff 17f (a distance simply too short for him on fairer tracks). He was never going to rein in the winner, an easy 12l winner, but his second place guaranteed over £2,200 for the Richard Guest Racing Club, and therefore the biggest payout yet to Carrie Humble's Throughbred Rehabiliation Centre. ISELLIDO was a well-beaten ninth in the same race under top weight, but this was always going to be about getting a race into her after the summer off back at her owners' place, and she'll doubtless be back novices' chasing before too long.
Anyone who had SHANNON'S PRIDE and PASS ME BY in their forecast for the 17-runner Class C feature race will be thanking the Guest yard, as they came in second and third. Shannon's Pride went with the leaders early on, and simply never let any of them bar eventual winner Ross Com get away, whilst Pass Me By's third place came from screaming through tired horses late on. In so doing, both advertised their claims as potential long-distance chasers this season - 3m 2f on bottomless going here will have raced like much further - and I'd like to see them trying something like the Tim Molony Chase at Haydock next if they can get into the handicap proper.
READY TO RUMBLE (3rd) and ASSUMETHEPOSITION (5th) made up a third of the field in the novices' handicap chase. The former made a bid for victory from halfway which was only finally beaten off completely in the run-in, whereas the latter was sticky at his fences on his first outing since June, and would have prefered a longer trip anyway. He'll be better for his next run.
There were no winners from Guest's seven-strong raiding party to Carlisle on Sunday, but there were some pretty encouraging runs in the main on ground barely raceable. SHEM DYLAN is not included in that statement, as he emphatically failed to win the 2m 4f novices' hurdle for Paul Beck and Guest for the second year out of three (ONE DAY took this on debut in 2003). He has now run enough times to get a handicap mark, but his pulled-up effort here offered no encouragement that he'll be scoring once moved into that discipline.
WHY THE LONG FACE's form in handicap hurdles has been ordinary to say the least this time, but he seemed lit up by the desperate ground and ultra-stiff 17f (a distance simply too short for him on fairer tracks). He was never going to rein in the winner, an easy 12l winner, but his second place guaranteed over £2,200 for the Richard Guest Racing Club, and therefore the biggest payout yet to Carrie Humble's Throughbred Rehabiliation Centre. ISELLIDO was a well-beaten ninth in the same race under top weight, but this was always going to be about getting a race into her after the summer off back at her owners' place, and she'll doubtless be back novices' chasing before too long.
Anyone who had SHANNON'S PRIDE and PASS ME BY in their forecast for the 17-runner Class C feature race will be thanking the Guest yard, as they came in second and third. Shannon's Pride went with the leaders early on, and simply never let any of them bar eventual winner Ross Com get away, whilst Pass Me By's third place came from screaming through tired horses late on. In so doing, both advertised their claims as potential long-distance chasers this season - 3m 2f on bottomless going here will have raced like much further - and I'd like to see them trying something like the Tim Molony Chase at Haydock next if they can get into the handicap proper.
READY TO RUMBLE (3rd) and ASSUMETHEPOSITION (5th) made up a third of the field in the novices' handicap chase. The former made a bid for victory from halfway which was only finally beaten off completely in the run-in, whereas the latter was sticky at his fences on his first outing since June, and would have prefered a longer trip anyway. He'll be better for his next run.
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