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A race won twice, an impressive bit of Foxhunter prep and a treble fortrainer and jockey Dale Peters will all mark the South Wold’s annualpoint-to-point meeting – AKA Revesby Races – in the memory for sometime.
The Lincolnshire track’s preparation had clearly gone to plan and didnot disappoint, resulting in Good to Soft ground which produced sixrace times within five seconds of one another. Trainers and jockeyswere happy and any horses which were unsure about the ground were soondeclared.
The Mark Barthorpe Open race attracted high class entries and two ofthe better pointers in this country – Music Drive and Linelee King –came to do a bit of Foxhunter preparation here, joined by Kansas duBerlais (Paddy Barlow) and Sambezi (Sam Lee). A cagey race ensued,with nobody really wanting to take the pace on, leaving the Pomfrets’Sambezi out front at a fairly steady pace until half way around thefinal lap, when Music Drive took it on in the capable hands of EllieCallwood. James King eased Linelee King past with a couple to jump andwent on to win by about three lengths. Music Drive, the better onpaper of the two, went off at 2/5-on but trainer Kelly Morgan wasn’tremotely bothered. “This was always just a stepping stone,” she said,“and we will now go straight to Cheltenham.”
The afternoon’s card began with a slightly unusual conditions race fornovice riders which saw two riders ride a finish a lap early. LouisHadfield, riding Coeur Serein, which he owns and trains saidafterwards, “I was aware of another horse coming up alongside veryquickly and I thought I must have got it wrong so I went for it too.”Cue lots of shouting from the sidelines and luckily both combinationscontinued on for the last lap and Hadfield and his Fame And Glory12-year-old held on well to beat odds-on favourite FrancescaPoste-trained Major Dundee (Clara Blewitt) by six lengths. Seven NoTrumps, ridden by Ben Durrell, was the only other finisher.
The Morgan yards were out in force to cheer on Louis Hadfield in thefirst and returned for the Robert Harriss Melvyn Leach Memorial Maidenwhich saw victory for Pillar To Post on his fifth outing between theflags. Pillar To Post was bought out of Station Yard Racing by SophieHarris, who gave him a bit of retraining, including some dressage,before he came back to racing as a syndicate horse for The OldMeltonians at Kelly Morgan’s Waltham-on-the-Wolds yard. Theseven-year-old was never far off the lead throughout and prevailedafter a good strong finish with Guseakie, ridden by Sam Lee forFrancesca Poste.
The second half of the racecard was a textbook display by Dale Peterson three horses he trains, recording a treble on the day which becamea 5 from 7 over the weekend after picking up a spare at Sheriff Huttonthe following day.
His first win, in the Spilsby NFU Intermediate Race, proved that hedeserves his billing alongside the best horses in the country at thislevel. He was, perhaps predictably, odds-on favourite when the flaggeddropped, but he controlled the race perfectly. The AndrewPennock-trained Trojan du Berlais, with Paddy Barlow in the plate, ledthe race until midway round the last lap when Largy Pearl made hismove. Premier Fantasy, in the hands of Bradley Gibbs, joined Trojan duBerlais in trying to quicken, but were ultimately left behind, withthe latter finishing second, five lengths behind the leader, PremierFantasy four behind that. Dale Peters says he might have one more runin points and then go hunter chasing.
The nine-year-old Wallace Olinger was his ride in The Jockey Club0-110 Rated Series race, winning by two lengths after a hard-foughtfinish which saw him make up five or six lengths after the last,despite some mediocre jumping. This goes some way to making up forbeing brought down at Alnwick last month when looking well positioned.“He’s a yard favourite,” Peters said, “and I don’t get to ride himmuch at home. He’s got a massive engine, but he can’t jump. Blesshim.”
The Annandale Restricted Race, last on the card, was won with acomfortable and assured performance by Line Em Up, following up on hiswin at Alnwick last month. The seven-year-old managed to pull away tobeat Boley Bob (Henry Crow) by five lengths on the line, with FrenchSymphony (W. Badlan) in third. “That was a good run today,” Peterssaid, “giving five pounds away. Obviously, Bradley’s horse, he wasgiving nearly a stone to, so I was pleased with that.”
In a fortnight’s time the Melton Hunt Club fixture will welcomeall-comers to Garthorpe for their six-race card. You can see the racedetails or buy tickets in advance here on the Midlands Pointingfixture page.
