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Trainer Luca Morgan was heading to Aintree this afternoon for a Grand National family reunion.
On the way he was pondering options for The Gambie Gang’s Admiral Bonzo, an unraced four-year-old who he has entered in a GB Pointing Bonus Young Horse Maiden race sponsored by Tattersalls Cheltenham at Edgcote on Sunday, but also in maiden races at Shelfield Park and Penshurst.
He said: “I’ve walked Shelfield and Edgcote and both courses are doing the best they can with watering. I’ll probably go back and take another look before deciding what to do.
“[Bloodstock agent] Dan Astbury found Admiral Bonzo for me and we bought him at Doncaster last year. He’s a very nice horse, a big horse, who will be a fantastic chaser one day, but he’s still only four and we have to look after him. Given his age if we rough him off and run him in the autumn he could still go to a sale before the end of the year.”
Luca Morgan, pondering running options for Admiral Bonzo (Ce)
Horses who win races in the series become eligible for a £25,000 bonus if bred in Britain, or £15,000 if bred overseas should they win a developmental hurdle or chase within two years from a licensed yard in Britain. The scheme is being funded by the Levy Board and backed by the BHA as a way of promoting young British pointers.
Morgan has experience of success in this way for he trained Baron Du Brizais to win the very first race in the GB Pointing Bonus Young Horse Maiden Series at Lower Machen in November. Soon after that he sold the four-year-old for £90,000 at Goffs Coral Gold Cup Sale held at Newbury.
The Aintree venture is to see his brother Beau ride former British point-to-pointer Twig – who is owned by their mother Georgia –in the Randox Grand National (4.00). A 50/1 shot last year Twig gave Beau a memorable spin round (the pair pictured top of the page) and finished tenth, but Luca believes he can improve on that despite now being an 11-year-old.
He said: “After last year’s National he had a bone chip removed from a fetlock and we had him home for the summer. He went back into training with Ben [Pauling], won at Sandown and then won the Becher Chase at Aintree. I think he has an each-way chance tomorrow.”
Twig ran twice in bumpers as a four-year-old, on one occasion when ridden by Luca at Wolverhampton, but showed little ability. When the owners decided to sell him Luca’s parents stepped in, bought the horse and sent him to Matt and Fliss Hampton who run a yard just south of Bath. The aim was to run him in point-to-points and provide Beau, who was about to turn 16, with some racing experience. Twig duly came of age, won six point-to-points and a hunters’ chase and returned to Pauling’s yard where he has become a very useful handicap chaser.
Luca said: “A lot of credit for that must go to Matt. The horse was a donkey when he went there, a twig of a thing, but they got him going and he’s turned out to be a wonderful horse.”
Cambridgeshire trainer Dale Peters expects to run four horses at Edcote, including unraced five-year-old Natureofthegame in the GB Pointing Bonus Young Horse Maiden. A British-bred son of Pether’s Moon, the gelding was bought at Doncaster in May last year for a partnership involving Peters and Toby Hunt.
Dale Peters, the Cambridgeshire trainer/rider expects to run Natureofthegame at Edgcote (Ce)
Asked why Natureofthegame did not run as a four-year-old, Peters said: “I prefer to do a bit with them at four, then turn them away and run at five. If I’ve bought a horse to be sold I’d run it at four, but this one is probably a horse we will keep. If he wins well and someone steps in with an offer we’d think about it, but that’s not the plan.
“He goes alright at home, but he’s never been off the farm for an away day. He could get to Edgcote and find it’s all a bit much, but on the other hand he might be fine. He’s not been really revved up.”
Worcestershire trainer Eve Hobbs plans to give a second outing to Paris Man, who ran well for a long way at Maisemore Park recently in an earlier round of the GB Pointing Bonus Young Horse Maiden Series. That race was turned into a procession by winner Midem De Berce, who raced keenly and put his rivals under pressure for most of the contest.
Paris Man joined a chasing group going through the start on the second circuit, but a mistake at the fence in front of the crowd cost him ground and he was eventually pulled up by Zac Baker with two fences to jump.
The experience did the four-year-old no harm, said Hobbs, who added: “He’s been very fresh and absolutely bounced back. He seems more worldly wise and when we’ve schooled him his jumping has improved and he seems more sure-footed.
Paris Man (farside, Zac Baker) during his debut run at Maisemore Park (Ce)
“I was slightly surprised how quick they went in that race and he found jumping in that company was a bit much. We’ve only got four point-to-pointers and it probably came as a bit of a shock to be in among other horses like that. When he ran out of gas Zak wisely pulled him up.
“I’ve spoken to Zac since on the phone and he says he’s looking forward to riding him again on Sunday.”
Winners of a GB Pointing young-horse maiden race land one of the two bonuses if subsequently successful within two years in any of the following:
