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Grace Mogg will not be a name familiar to many in the sport, but she is preparing to make her debut as a trainer this weekend.
Mogg has entered her sole horse, Hoo’s The Jet (pictured above), in the weekend’s two GB Pointing Young Horse Maiden Series races at Didmarton in Gloucestershire and Charlton Horethorne in Dorset. Tattersalls Cheltenham sponsors both races having agreed to step in when the race at Didmarton was added to the series following the loss of earlier races due to waterlogging. Tattersalls Cheltenham is staging its headline Festival Sale a week on Thursday after racing at Cheltenham’s feature meeting.
Hoo’s The Jet ran in an earlier leg in the series when finishing a head second to Briskalo at Chaddesley Corbett in December under Darren Andrews. Trained then by Josh Newman, he was subsequently sold for £30,000 at Tattersalls Cheltenham’s December Sale when knocked down to Dorset trainer Syd Hosie.
Taking up the story, Mogg says: “Syd is my fiancée and I’m his assistant trainer. Our goal is to get a dual licence, and it was going to help if I trained a point-to-pointer or two. Syd bought Hoo’s The Jet to help me get going, and the horse is now owned by three people who are very loyal to the yard. I couldn’t wish to train for nicer people. We are planning to run at Charlton Horethorne, which will suit us as it’s only 25 minutes away and the owners are all local.”
Mogg is on a steep learning curve within the sport, but she booked Andrews to renew his association with five-year-old Hoo’s The Jet. She says: “Darren rang and asked to ride the horse, and I took it as a good sign that he was keen to do so. The horse looks well, works well and seems happy.
Darren Andrews, who renews his association with the Grace Mogg-trained Hoo’s The Jet (Ce)
“The series and its bonuses are a great thing for the sport. If Hoo’s The Jet were to win he could then go into Syd’s name to run under rules and attempt to win a bonus.”
Designed to put the spotlight on four- and five-year-old point-to-pointers trained in Britain, the series involves bonuses worth up to £25,000 for winners of races in the series who are bred in Britain – like Hoo’s The Jet – and who then go on to score under rules within two years. Horses bred overseas can chase a £15,000 bonus. Auctioneers Tattersalls Cheltenham and Goffs are sharing sponsorship of individual races and the project is backed by the British Horseracing Authority and Horseracing Betting Levy Board.
Thirteen entries have been received for the Didmarton race, including three from the stable of champion trainer Josh Newman. His trio include Electric City, who recently finished runner-up to Six Two Three in a GB Pointing YHM race at Badbury Rings – the winner of that contest is said to have been sold privately into Dan Skelton’s stable.
Newman has also entered Champagne Blue and Make Idaho Great, a pair of five-year-olds who have each had a couple of runs in Irish point-to-points and who also hold entries in a three-mile maiden race at Charlton Horethorne. At the last-named venue Somerset-based Newman has also entered a pair of unraced four-year-olds in the young-horse maiden, namely French-bred Maitre D’Oudairies, a son of stallion Night Wish, and GB-bred Micky Haller, whose sire, Passing Glance, stands at Batsford Stud in Gloucestershire.
At Lower Machen in November the first winner in the GB Pointing young-horse series was the Luca Morgan-trained four-year-old Baron Du Brizais. He was subsequently sold to Ben Pauling for £90,000 and is reported to be thriving in his new home.
Luca Morgan, who runs Daily Offender in the GB Pointing YHM Series race at Charlton Horethorne (Ce)
Morgan is about to attempt another win in the series having entered the unraced four-year-old Daily Offender (a son of Westerner) in the weekend’s two YHM races. Morgan says: “We’re planning to run at Charlton Horethorne and James King will ride.
“I’m hopeful because he’s a horse with gears to burn and he works all over some of our better work horses on the grass. I bought him at last year’s [Goffs] Arkle Sale. We usually spend €15,000 to €20,000 on stores, but having followed him around all day I went to €35,000 to buy him – it was totally mental, and while he deserved that price it wasn’t the plan.
“He’s 16.2 hands and just my type of horse.”
