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Buck Dancing was on the road yesterday making the long journey from North Yorkshire to Taunton for the season’s first hunters’ chase.
Trained and ridden by national novice champion Jess Bedi, 11-year-old Buck Dancing (pictured above) is one of eight runners in a quality staging of the Geoffrey Bosley ‘Tally Ho’ Open Hunters’ Chase (3.30) over a trip just shy of three miles. The Paul Nicholls-trained Captain Cattistock, who was recently acquired by owner/rider David Maxwell, is likely to start favourite, but strong opposition includes recent impressive Ffos Las winner Wishing And Hoping, last season’s Cheltenham evening meeting winner Bishops Road and the 2018 Topham Chase winner Ultragold.
None of the teams behind those horses can rule Buck Dancing out of the equation, for he made a sparkling season’s debut when winning at Alnwick recently, he won two handicap chases in the summer and he made the very talented Earth Leader work for victory in a novices’ hunters’ chase at Stratford in May. On the negative side his handicap mark of 115 is far below that of the horses at the head of the market.
Bedi and boyfriend Aaron Anderson, who is also an amateur rider, travelled to Somerset yesterday and stabled Buck Dancing at the racecourse. This morning, while Bedi was driving to the track, Anderson said from the passenger seat: “There are some pros, some cons to this race, but there are no hunter chases in the north until February 1, and while some of his form under Rules is a bit patchy the Taunton going is likely to be as good as it gets at the moment, and all his best form is on nicer ground. Besides, it was a chance to have a night away – we’ve left Granny [Sandra Barker, who owns Buck Dancing] in charge of the horses at home.
“Today’s race is a stepping stone, a way of finding out where we are, but you would look pretty foolish if you said with confidence we can beat them all. The handicapper is never normally too far wrong, but this will give us an idea about where we go next. He’s shown he’s a good horse in the north of England and he won well at Alnwick against Joe O’Shea’s nice horse [Irish Anthem]. Jess gave him a peach of a ride.”
Alex Edwards leads the men’s point-to-point championship having ridden five winners, including the Ffos Las victory on Wishing And Hoping, his mount in today’s hunters’ chase. Trainer Phil Rowley said of the ten-year-old: “I love the horse, and he’s well, but this is a tough race. We’ll know more after he’s run, but Cheltenham [the Foxhunter Chase] is not a certainty at the moment. We’ll see how he is.”
Wishing And Hoping (Alex Edwards) seen winning an open race at Ffos Las last month
