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Dean Summersby sent out four winners from his six runners at the Eggesford meeting from his Little Acres yard near Lifton. After a slow start to the season the Summersby team has hit form in the last couple of months and the Devon trainer was saddling his 13th winner of the season at this popular Upcott Cross fixture, run on good ground which was slightly softer at the top end of the track.
The exciting six-year-old Jet Smart, with his quintet of owners cheering him on, started the ball rolling when finishing off strongly to beat Whitsand Bay in the Intermediate with the other Summersby runner Liberty Rock back in third after making much of the running. The in-form trainer is not tempted to pitch Jet Smart into hunter chase company yet, despite the attraction of the Restricted Final at Stratford. Jockey Darren Edwards reported “He is a lovely generous horse who is enjoying his pointing and there was a bit left in the tank,”
Hell Red quickly added to the Summersby / Edwards haul by taking the featured Mixed Open, backed from 7-4 to 4-5. The grey seven-year-old drew clear from the top of the hill to beat the useful Quintin’s Man easing up. The trainer reported. “He is owned by a small syndicate and was bought privately from Paul Nicholls. He needs good ground. He can’t go in the soft and it even changes the horse’s mood working on the moor when it’s soft. We might think about the hunter chase at Newton Abbot at the end of May.”
Dean’s daughter Charlotte got into the act by steering Honest Opinion to an easy victory in the Grass Roots race. The genuine mare had not visited the winner’s enclosure since her Flete Park success two years ago, but went on her merry way after Jabbea had uncharacteristically crashed through a wing at half way when close up. “I knew she was in really good form when she came off the lorry,” said the rider wearing the colours of owners Redheads on Tour – consisting of mother Emma Summersby plus daughters, as Emma confirmed to my rather naïve enquiry asking who are the redheads.
The Summersby team struck again when Lakota Warrior jumped superbly and made all to win the Hunt race, chased home by recent Haldon hunter chase winner Hearts Corner. 16-year-old Rian Corcoran, who has enjoyed pony race wins at Upcott Cross in the past and now works for Will Biddick, is one of the finds of the season and was enjoying his fifth pointing success.
Holkham Hall was a deserving winner of the six-year-old and over Maiden. The lightly raced eight-year-old had come up against progressive types at Kilworthy and Stafford Cross, quickening well here on the run in after a patient Darren Andrews ride to beat odds-on favourite Southfield Scope. Gordon Treacy was saddling his second winner of the season and his partner Amie explained, “It is our first season training at the Rathkenny Stud at Bondleigh near North Tawton and our second winner. We bought Holkham Hall from Paul Henderson and he likes soft going.”
There was a blanket finish to the Young Horse Maiden which saw Martin McIntyre’s mount Fortune and Favour storming up the run in to collar See You Kauto and King Roque, with newcomer Atlantic Lad close up in fourth. A lengthy stewards’ enquiry concluded that any interference between the main protagonists was accidental, much to the relief of owners Edward and Sue Darke. The Soldier of Fortune five-year-old Fortune and Favour was sourced from Sean Doyle in Ireland by the Frosts and is stabled with Nikki Frost.
Important Notice also originated from Sean Doyle’s Wexford academy of young point-to-pointers. With Josh Newman in the saddle the pair made up for their Axe Vale lapse with a convincing victory over Summer Jam (Will Biddick) in the Restricted. The champion jockey must have become fed up with finishing second as six of his nine weekend mounts had occupied the runner up berth. Six-year-old Important Notice runs in the colours of Tom and Sally Dalley and is trained by Josh Newman at Woolminstone. His future probably lies under rules.
Newman is in a strong position at the moment to secure the National trainers’ award for 15 or more horses, whilst Dean Summersby is making a late bid in the 6 to 14 horse category. These are just two of the National Championships heading to an exciting climax, but for reasons best known to themselves the Point- to- Point Authority (PPA) has decided for all intents and purposes to cut off this season on Spring Bank Holiday Monday (May 27th).
This means that results that count towards all the National titles this year will also finish on that day. Whatever happens, pointing enthusiasts can still look forward to three fixtures in the West Country due to take place after the Upcott Cross meeting on Spring Bank Holiday Monday. These are at Trebudannon (evening of May 31st ); Bratton Down (June 2nd); and the traditional end of season meeting at Umberleigh (June 8th). All these meetings will count towards this year’s Devon & Cornwall Area championships.
