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Cheltenham’s Paddy Power Gold Cup meeting saw a superb season’s debut by five-year-old No Drama This End, a Badbury Rings winner in February last year when trained and ridden by Will Biddick (the pair pictured above). Lining up in a Gr.2 novices’ hurdle, the son of Walk In The Park beat nine rivals in impressive style.
No Drama This End was sold to Tom Malone and trainer Paul Nicholls at the Tattersalls Cheltenham Festival Sale for £160,000 and subsequently won a bumper and ran well in the Festival’s Weatherbys Champion Bumper before being put away for the summer.
After the gelding’s victory on Friday, Nicholls said: “ That was brilliant. It’s a great start [to his hurdling career]. He won a point-to-point for Will, who always liked the horse, and we did too, but we didn’t expect him to do that first time in a hurdle.” However, a recent piece of work started giving Nicholls second thoughts. Asked why he launched the horse straight into a Gr.2 hurdle he said: “If you’d seen him work as well as he did in a gallop at Newbury the other day you’d have done the same. We thought what’s the point of going to Chepstow for four grand. At least if we go to Cheltenham we’ll have a better idea of where we stand. He’s clearly a smart horse, and he’s got plenty of size.”
Another former Biddick-trained-and-ridden point-to-pointer, five-year-old Fresh Perspective, added to his growing reputation when winning a hurdle race at Wetherby on Saturday. A winner on debut at Milborne St Andrew in January last year in the colours of Tom Malone, he was subsequently moved to trainer Jamie Snowden for whom he won a bumper in November. He made a winning hurdling debut at Fontwell before following up on Saturday.
A pair of horses who started their point-to-point careers with Yorkshire trainer Jack Teal landed races on either side of the Irish Sea on Sunday. Kdeux Saint Fray was ridden by Teal’s sister, Lois, when finishing second on his pointing debut at Garthorpe in April last year as a four-year-old, before the trainer climbed into the saddle and won on the son of Masked Marvel at Dingley. Sold for £48,000 after that win he landed a novices’ handicap chase at Cheltenham for Anthony Honeyball’s stable.
Kdeux Saint Fray (Jack Teal, no.15) on his way to victory at Dingley (Ce)
Another ex-Teal pointer, Kalypso’Chance, won a Gr.3 novices’ hurdle at Navan in Ireland for trainer Gordon Elliott and owners Gigginstown House Stud. A maiden race winner at Corbridge in April last year, and subsequently sold by Teal for £85,000, Kalypso’Chance, won two bumpers for his new stable before switching to hurdling.
Other good performances by ex-British pointers included an excellent third place in the weekend’s big race, the Paddy Power Gold Cup, by Hoe Joly Smoke, who won a maiden race at Charm Park for Tom Ellis before moving to Dan Skelton. Sinchi Rocca, who was trained by Eamonn O’Donovan when winning at Larkhill in December last year on his pointing debut, later won a bumper for Anthony Charlton and on Sunday at Cheltenham finished a staying-on second in the 13-runner bumper for his latest trainer, Syd Hosie.
Tommie O’Brien sits back at the last before winning on Sinchi Rocca at Larkhill (Ce)
Britain’s national men’s champion, James King, was in winning form at Cheltenham on Saturday when riding Hung Jury to victory in the amateur riders’ chase. The ten-year-old ran in 21 point-to-points for Fran Nimmo and then Sian Brooke, winning five and being placed in nine before joining licensed trainer Martin Keighley for whom he has now won twice.
Meanwhile, at Fontwell on Sunday, there was a first winner under rules for novice amateur rider Harvey Barfoot-Saunt, who won a handicap chase on Just Over Land for his boss, Sam Thomas. Barfoot-Saunt has ridden three winners in point-to-points.
