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Warwickshire-based Zak Baker prefers golf to cricket, but he’s putting his clubs aside on Monday when he hopes to bowl out the opposition in Eyton-on-Severn’s GB Pointing Bonus Young Horse Maiden Series race (1.00).
Baker (pictured above) is booked to ride one of 15 entries in the Goffs-sponsored two-and-a-half miler, Cricket Legend, a debutant four-year-old by Overbury Stud stallion Jack Hobbs and the mare Legendara (Midnight Legend). Jack Hobbs was a top-class racehorse named after a cricketing genius who scored 199 centuries (you missed out there Jack) and nearly 62,000 runs, while Legendara ran five times in point-to-points, pulled up twice, won at Flete Park, and then pulled up twice more. However, she has since foaled The Kemble Brewery, who has won two bumpers and two hurdle races for Kim Bailey and Mat Nicholls.
While riding out this morning for Cricket Legend’s trainer, Gina Andrews, Baker said: “I’ve just schooled him. He goes really well and I’m looking forward to riding him. All Gina’s four-year-olds have had plenty of away days and went round Guilsborough on the Monday after the recent meeting there, but as you know, all the horses trained here are schooled and fit. The preparation work is AI – they cannot be more ready and then it just has to work out on the day.”
If Cricket Legend, who was bred in Great Britain, were to win Monday’s race he would be in line for a £25,000 bonus if successful within two years in a developmental hurdle or chase. Should the winner be bred overseas they would tee up a potential £15,000 bonus. The money, which is provided by the Levy Board with BHA backing, is designed to attract attention to young British point-to-pointers who tackle races in the GB Pointing Bonus Series.
Two trainers with runners in Monday’s race at Eyton-on-Severn headed to the coast this morning, but with different goals. Max Kendrick, assistant trainer to Gloucestershire-based Fergal O’Brien, arrived at Holyhead ferry port before embarking on a trip to Ireland’s Easter fixture at Fairyhouse, while Herefordshire-based Chris Barber went to the sand dunes at Ogmore-by-Sea in South Wales to provide his Aintree Foxhunters’ Chase hopeful Famous Clermont with change of scenery. Now 11, Famous Clermont won the Randox-sponsored race three years ago and is heading back there a week today to provide Milo Corbett with another spin over the Grand National fences.
The mission for Kendrick, who is expecting to run the four-year-old filly Magnifaik at Eyton, was to travel the O’Brien-trained Sixmilebridge to Fairyhouse where on Sunday he tackles the Gr.1 WillowWarm Gold Cup. The seven-year-old is unbeaten in three runs this season, and Kendrick, speaking from the deck of the ferry, said: “He’s one of my babies – I ride him every day. I’ve just given him his feed and water and all being well we’ll see him again in four hours.”
Kendrick , whose wife Charlotte is a secretary at O’Brien’s yard, rent boxes ten minutes from O’Brien’s stable where he keeps three young pointers. He said: “I’ve trained older pointers, but this is my first stab with youngsters who are all for sale. I’ve Got A Friend ran well to be second at Larkhill last weekend, we have a lovely Jet Away who is being educated, but probably won’t run until next season, and Magnifaik [Buck’s Boum]. She’s being scoped today and if all goes well she will run on Monday with Sean O’Connor in the saddle. He’s schooled her and been very helpful.
“Sadly, because the Fairyhouse race is at five o’clock we can’t catch a ferry back until Monday morning so I won’t be able to make it to Eyton, but Charlotte’s going there with Alfie Martindale, who rides out for Fergal and has been a big help to us with the pointers.”
Kendrick says of the GB Pointing Bonus Young Horse Maiden Series: “It’s a brilliant idea. It makes for competitive races, which means you don’t have to put the gun to a young horse’s head on their first run. If they get beaten in a good race it doesn’t matter. They can have another go another day. My filly will win races, but she might just lack a bit of experience first time out against horses who cost more than her [as stores]. If she runs a nice race that will do.”
Barber has made two entries for Monday’s race, but with Rockatansky having produced a dirty scope he relies upon Milo Of Croton, who was bought at Goffs’ Spring Sale in Doncaster last May for £37,000. Ed Doggrell rides the four-year-old, of whom Barber says: “He’s a lovely big horse, but will probably improve for a summer at grass and be a better horse next season.
“Eyton’s a nice track for a young horse and I was keen to run something there.” Barber’s lorry heads to Sandon tomorrow where he runs the progressive Couer D’Alene, who is bidding for his fourth win of the season, and four-year-old Noble Thistle, who was second in a GB Pointing Bonus YHM race at Charlton Horethorne last month.
La Coya (Tommie O’Brien) who is entered at Eyton-on-Severn by trainer Eamonn O’Donnabhain (Ce)
Eamonn O’Donnabhain has entered five-year-old La Coya (Jet Away) who unseated two fences from the finish at Buckfastleigh when looking likely to take the runner-up spot. Tommie O’Brien is booked to renew the partnership, while a couple of trainers with entries for the Eyton-on-Severn maiden have already won races in the series.
They are Luca Morgan who could run Admiral Bonzo (Vadamos), and Josh Newman who has entered Good Shout (Ask) who was bred by a partnership involving his wife, Kayley Woollacott. Tom Scudamore, who has been targeting races in the Series without hitting the bullseye, has entered Whatsupoxo (Maxios), a €60,000 Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale purchase who is a half-brother to the smart Wade Out.
*Winners of a GB Pointing young-horse maiden race land one of the two bonuses if, within two years of their victory and if trained from licensed premises in Britain, they are subsequently successful in any of the following:
