Jumps Joy Can Follow Flat Success For Norton Trainer (from York Press)
Jumps joy can follow Flat success for Norton trainer
9:42am Saturday 12th November 2011
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Tony Coyle has made a good start to his training career on the Flat – and he can make his mark at the jumping game at Wetherby tomorrow.
The Norton handler saddles River Dragon in the Dransfields CIU Charity Raceday Handicap Hurdle and the recent Flat winner is fancied to capitalise on his proven fitness.
a winner on this course last season for Neville Bycroft, River Dragon has looked an improved horse on the level lately and there was much to like about his gutsy success at Ayr a couple of weeks ago. He is expected to go well in the hands of Brian Toomey.
in the Totepool Handicap Chase, Wolf Moon goes in search of deserved compensation.
Trained in Gloucestershire by Martin Keighley, the eight-year-old failed by only a head to beat Harry Hunt on this course two weeks on his first outing of the season.
He may not have to improve much on that to go one better here under the talented Adrian Cawley, who has recently joined the Keighley stable after making a big impression in Ireland.
Tim Easterby, on the mark at Newcastle yesterday with Tipoeaway, can follow up with Residence and Spa in the opening Benfield Ford Wetherby Juvenile Selling Hurdle.
Owned by Channel 4 racing expert Jim McGrath, Residence and Spa has been a disappointing horse in the main, but he has shown enough over hurdles this season to suggest that a modest event such as this is within his compass.
David O’Meara placed Classical Mist to win at Uttoxeter at the end of last month and the seven-year-old may have the scope for further improvement.
Classical Mist reappears in the Book Tickets now For Boxing Day Mares’ Novices’ Hurdle, with Denis O’Regan in the saddle.
with Sue Smith’s horses in such terrific form, it would be unwise to underestimate the chances of Whiskey Ridge in the Colin Baldwin 80th Birthday Handicap Chase, while Shadows Lengthen has decent prospects in the totescoop6 Handicap Hurdle.
Mick Easterby’s gelding should not have any fitness worries after a recent outing on the Flat.
At Cheltenham tomorrow, the all-conquering Paul Nicholls looks set for yet another bumper day.
The champion trainer is fancied to complete a quick-fire hat-trick, intiated by Al Ferof, a top notch hurdler, who is an exciting recruit to fences in the Independent Newspaper Novices’ Chase.
Nicholls’ high-class Woolcombe Folly, who has shown his effectiveness on this course, is napped to have the measure of the in-form West with The Wind in the Shloer Chase. Like Al Ferof, he will be ridden by Ruby Walsh.
in the featured Greatwood Hurdle, Nicholls saddles both Sanctuaire and Brampour and marginal preference is for recent Ascot winner Brampour, who will again benefit from the 7lb claim of amateur Harry Derham.
Jeremy Scott, who has his horses in terrific form, has excellent prospects with the smart Ultravox in the Paddy Power Intermediate Handicap Hurdle, while Grandads Horse, winner of all four of his outings this season, will be a popular choice to extend the sequence in the Neptune Investment Management Novices’ Hurdle.
The British Horseracing Authority have announced further amendments to the new whip rules.
The number of uses per race for the whip by a jockey is to remain at seven for the Flat and eight over jumps, but a number of changes to the structure for penalties have been introduced.
any rider now going one strike over the allowed limit will receive a two-day ban and not the current five, and while a second offence for one extra will still be doubled, it will be from two days to four, and not from five to ten.
two uses of the whip over the permitted limit will result in a five-day ban rather than seven, and three extra will see a seven-day ban and not nine.
racing selections
Wetherby (today) 12.40 Residence and Spa, 1.10 Classical Mist, 1.45 Whiskey Ridge, 2.25 River Dragon, 2.55 Wolf Moon, 3.25 Shadows Lengthen, 4.00 Weston Lodge.
Today’s other meetings: Cheltenham, Lingfield, Uttoxeter and Wolverhampton.
• Today’s nap is Haadeeth in the 6.20 at Wolverhampton.
Cheltenham (tomorrow) 1.10 Al Ferof, 1.45 Woolcombe Folly (NAP), 2.20 Brampour, 2.55 Ultravox, 3.30 Grandads Horse, 4.00 Koko Lane.
Tomorrow’s other meeting: Fontwell.
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