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Kingofthefrontier defied doubters when winning Charm Park’s GB Pointing Bonus Young Horse Maiden Series race on Sunday as the outsider of five runners.
Coolly ridden by Joe Wright the Cherry Coward-trained five-year-old (5/1) swamped his rivals for speed when racing through a gap between them on the home turn before pulling clear for victory by five lengths. It was a success that said plenty about Kingofthefrontier’s ability, attitude and the professionalism which marked his debut into racing.
Second in the Tattersalls Cheltenham-sponsored contest was the Robin Tate-trained Helm Bar (Shirocco), who was five lengths adrift, with another newcomer, Talktotherocks (Yeats) a further four-and-a-half lengths back in third under owner-trainer-rider Jack Teal.
Coward’s daughter, Sam, had said in a pre-race interview that Kingofthefrontier, a son of Overbury Stud stallion Frontiersman, was “not the biggest, but he’s tough, and he thinks he’s big”. Twenty-four hours after the race Sam said: “What a result – what a good boy! He just did everything as he should.
“We said to Joe before the race just take everything as it comes, and he said ‘I’ll take my time and see how the race unfolds’. After the race he said ‘There was a bit of gap on the final bend and I thought I’d better take that’ and the horse went off like a rocket. There was plenty left in him at the line – Joe had trouble pulling him up before the stone wall [at the end of the home straight].
Trainer Cherry Coward (right) and her daughter Sam join Kingofthefrontier and winning rider Joe Wright in the winner’s enclosure (Tom Milburn)
“I think he made one mistake, but otherwise his jumping was good. Isla [John] who led him up said he hardly blew. It was all a bit of a shock, but he’s always taken his work very well.
“We trotted him up this morning and he seems fine.”
Kingofthefrontier, a GB-bred son of the winning pointer Yoohoof – a mare who was owned in a partnership that involved top golfer Lee Westwood – is for sale, and whether he changes hands at public auction or privately he can now earn a £25,000 bonus if successful in a developmental hurdle or chase within two years from a licensed yard based in Britain. Horses bred outside of Britain who win one of the 15-scheduled races in the GB Pointing Bonus Young Horse Maiden Series can earn a sum of £15,000.
Didmarton In Gloucestershire and Charlton Horethorne in Dorset stage two more races in the GB Pointing Bonus Young Horse Maiden Series this coming weekend.
The series and its bonuses are backed by the British Horseracing Authority and Horserace Betting Levy Board and aim to highlight young British point-to-pointers and generate interest in them when they are offered for sale. Auctioneers Tattersalls Cheltenham and Goffs UK have backed the idea by sponsoring a number of races each.
Winners of a GB Pointing young-horse maiden race land bonuses of £25,000 or £15,000 if subsequently successful in any of the following:
