Headlines
Greaneteen Sends a Tingle round Sandown
Allaho
No Clouds over Protektorat
Riviere D’Etel Shines at Navan
Energumene lands Hilly Way Chase
Ferney Hollow
Report
We start at Aintree, where in the 3m 1f grade 2 chase, Protektorat (Peej, Steve), took his chance, Settled Midfield, chased leaders 8th, disputed lead 15th, led 4 out, went well clear from 3 out, nudged along run-in, winning impressively by 25l. He gets 25 points.
At Navan in the 2m 1f grade 3 novice chase Riviere D’Etel ( Neil), took her chance, Jumped right on occasions, made all, went clear approaching last, winning comfortably by 12l. She gets 32.2 points.
At Sandown in the 2m Grade 1 Tingle Creek Chase Greateteen ( Cliff), went to post, Towards rear, pecked on landing 3rd, not fluent 8th, close up 3 out, led just after 2 out, ridden clear approaching last, good jump last, hung left but ridden out and kept on strongly run-in, won going away by 5 ½ l. He gets 101 points.
On Sunday at Cork in the 2m grade 2 chase Energumene ( Bob), went to post, Disputed lead, led narrowly before 2nd, 5 lengths ahead 3rd, headed after 6th, pressed leader until led going best before 3 out, clear from 2 out, kept on well run-in, winning easily by 8 ½ l. He gets 42.6 points.
At Punchestown in the 2m 4f grade 1 John Durkan memorial chase Allaho ( Peej), took his chance, Jumped left on occasions, led, not fluent 1st, pushed along after 4 out, joined until left clear 3 out, ridden and reduced lead and faced challenge when mistake 2 out, steadied last, stayed on, all out, winning by 2l. He gets 56.6 points.
In the 2m 1f Beginners chase, Ferney Hollow ( Peej), took his chance, Disputed lead early, led 1st, not fluent 2nd, jumped slightly left 4th, mistake 5th, faced challenge after 4 out, joined before 2 out, headed when pushed along from 2 out, soon ridden, led again from last, kept on well and went clear run-in , winning by 4l. He gets 23 points.
The John Torpey Memorial Trophy
December Total
Peej 104.6 348.57
Cliff 101 237.29
Steve 25 175.12
Neil 32.2 130.4
Bob 42.6 125.81
Cod 00 113.05
Martin 00 51.4
Congratulations to Peej, who was November Trainer of the Month
Grand Slam
Leg 1 Neil
Leg 2 Tony
Leg 3 Tony
Leg 4 Cliff
Leg 5 Neil
Leg 6 Peej
Leg 7 Tony
Leg 8 Steve
Leg 9 Steve
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News
Nube Negra will not run again before the Queen Mother Champion Chase after failing to meet expectations at Sandown on Saturday. While Skelton is keen not to make any excuses for Nube Negra, he feels he will benefit from having a longer break ahead of his bid to bounce back at the Festival in March. He said: “He’s grand – nothing ventured, nothing gained. “Obviously he can be better than the result and we’ll just keep him fresh now until Cheltenham. “Clearly, he has to be fresh, so we’ll go straight for the Champion Chase.”
Coole Cody, a likely leading player in Saturday's Racing Post Gold Cup at Cheltenham, had his "unconventional" style of jumping backed fully on Tuesday when trainer Evan Williams defied anyone to find a tougher horse than his ten-year-old. "I'm never one of those to predict things and at the end of the day if you don't jump, you don't win – good luck to the winner is what I say," Williams said.
"I'm pretty keen to run this weekend and can't see any reason why we wouldn't. He'll have a school in the morning and that'll tell us where we are. He has his own technique of jumping and it's unconventional. There's no doubting that and he gets away with things, but didn't that day. "He normally works it out. He didn't work it out last time, but I'm sure he knows more about jumping than you or me. Not a lot bothers Coole Cody though. He's a tough, genuine horse – they don't come much tougher."
Weekend Entries
Doncaster Friday
2.15 Gran Luna
Cheltenham
3.35 Sporting John
Saturday
Doncaster
2.05 Threeunderthrufive
Cheltenham
12.40 Bob Olinger, My Drogo
1.50 Coole Cody,
3.00 Sceau Royal
Sunday, Carlisle,
12.00 Roxyana
Southwell
2.25 Gran Luna
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