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Bonuses that put a spotlight on British breeding and point-to-pointing will be a topic when the new point-to-point season opens on Sunday.
Horse boxes will be heading to Lower Machen in South Wales for the kick-off and a six-race card which has attracted 58 entries, including 17 for the first leg in the GB Pointing Bonus Young Horse Maiden Series, a race which on this occasion is sponsored by Tattersalls Cheltenham. Introduced last season when offering cash bonuses to winners who went on to score under rules in selected races – two have done so successfully – the series has been given a fresh and notable boost with the introduction of a £10,000 hand-out to winners in the series who were bred in Britain. Nine of Sunday’s entries for the race carry the GB-prefix.
Multiple national champion rider Gina Andrews has made two entries, including the GB-bred Pennyburn who would carry the colours made famous by Champion Hurdle winner Honeysuckle if running for owner/breeder Kenny Alexander. However, this morning Andrews was thinking her most likely conveyance would be Rich Mans World who she trains and owns after he was bought as a store at last year’s Goffs Arkle Sale.
Gina Andrews who expects to ride Rich Mans World in Sunday’s GB Pointing Bonus Young Horse Maiden (Ce)
Andrews said: “We hoped to run both horses in the spring, but the ground became too firm. Pennyburn goes nicely, but he’s a big horse and I would like soft ground to start him off. The other horse [Rich Mans World] is a handier type and I’m probably favouring running him. Pennyburn is a possibility for Buckfastleigh if it rains.
“I’ve got quite a lot of four-year-olds to run before Christmas and I’m just getting worried that we might run out of options.”
Rich Mans World was bought by agent David Phelan for €52,000 as an unbroken three-year-old. He is an Irish-bred son of Crystal Ocean and a half-brother to four winners, the pick being talented Foxy Jacks, who won a cross-country chase at Cheltenham’s November meeting in 2023 – the runner-up, beaten just a length and a quarter, was Latenightpass ridden by Andrews.
The 12-time champion rider says the new £10,000 bonus “has got to be a good thing” although she says the right horse on a suitable course and with favourable ground conditions remain her priority.
Bridgend trainer Roger Willcox says he would be “overwhelmed” if his GB-bred four-year-old Lord Flyer won the race and scooped the bonus. Willcox says of the unraced, home-bred gelding: “He’s out of a half-decent mare who won a maiden and restricted point-to-point who we then ran under rules, but another horse ran into the back of her and she was retired. At the time my son was working for Dai Brace so we sent her to his stallion [Ask].
“We’ll be trying our best on Sunday, when Henry Crow will ride. Nicky Williams [a former top amateur rider] has been schooling him and the horse has done tremendously.”
The best sales ring result by any British point-to-pointer last season was achieved by the filly Magnifaik. Owned and trained by Gloucestershire-based Max Kendrick she won a GB Pointing Bonus maiden race at Eyton-on-Severn and was then sold to Nicky Henderson for £110,000 at Goffs’ Aintree Salel. It was a tremendous result for Kendrick with his first serious sales horse.
Magnifaik just ahead of her entry to the Aintree sales ring where she sold for £110,000 (Ce)
On Sunday he plans to lift Sean O’Connor into the saddle to ride Lovethewayyoulie, a four-year-old GB-bred son of Jet Away out of the mare All Risk For Love, a half-sister to top staying hurdler Teahupoo. Kendrick says of the bonuses linked to the series: “They are such a good incentive and it’s really appropriate that so many people and organisations are getting behind British point-to-pointing.”
Admitting he will be “a bag of nerves” on Sunday, Kendrick was speaking after schooling a trio of three-year-olds over fences. They are all possible maiden-race runners next spring.
He says of Lovethewayyoulie: “We bought him at Doncaster last year and he and Magnifaik worked together, but by the time he was ready to run the ground had become a bit quick. This has been the plan for a long time. Sean has been schooling him and loves him, he’s got a nice pedigree and does everything nicely at home.”
Luca Morgan, who trained Baron Du Brizais to become the first winner when the series launched last year at Lower Machen (pictured above with owner Paige Topley on left), expects to run two four-year-olds on Sunday. He says: “James [King] will ride Daily Offender, while Harry O’Dwyer will be on Admiral Bonzo, who he rides every day at home.
“We ran Daily Offender at Charlton Horethorne last season when I thought he was a certainty and that all he had to do was stay between the wings [of the fences]. He pulled up mid-race with an over-reach and his blood count was wrong. It was a nightmare because we hoped to go from there to the [Tattersalls Cheltenham] Festival Sale, and then the ground went against us, but his recent work has been good.
“Admiral Bonzo ran at Garthorpe in April and he is such a good jumper we thought we’d pop him out and make the running. Unfortunately he was way too keen and ran like a horse that was over the top. It was my fault for running him. He’s been going nicely and it wouldn’t surprise me if ran a big race.”
Baron Du Brizais was sold into Ben Pauling’s for £90,000 at Goffs’ Coral Gold Cup Sale soon after his win last year and he subsequently ran a promising race when second in a bumper to a horse who scored again next time out. Morgan said he was looking forward to seeing his old friend in action soon.
Baron Du Brizais, who won the inaugural GB Pointing Bonus Young Horse Maiden race for Luca Morgan (Ce)
The GB-Pointing Young Horse Maiden Series has been developed in conjunction with the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) and funded by the Horserace Betting Levy Board (HBLB). The new £10,000 bonus for winners bred in Britain is being backed by the HBLB, auctioneers Tattersalls and Goffs and by racecourse group Arena Racing Company. The last-named trio are taking turn to sponsor individual races in the series.
British-bred winners become eligible for a £25,000 bonus if they go on to win designated hurdles or chases run under rules within two calendar years from the yard of a licensed trainer in Britain, while horses bred overseas can gain a £15,000 bonus if following up.
The bonuses aim to highlight young British point-to-pointers and generate interest in them when they are offered for sale.
GB Pointing Bonus YHM Series
Roll of Honour
Kingofthefrontier (GB) – £25,000. Charm Park GB Pointing Bonus maiden. Southwell maiden hurdle.
Woodstock Octo (Ire) – £15,000. Dunsmore GB Pointing Bonus maiden. Cheltenham novices’ hurdle.
Winners of a GB Pointing Young Horse Maiden race land one of the two bonuses if subsequently successful from a licensed yard in Britain in any of the following races within two years of their point-to-point success:
