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A name synonymous with Jump racing is set to be involved in Sunday’s Tattersalls Cheltenham-sponsored race in the GB Pointing Young Horse Maiden Series.
Tom Scudamore, son of eight-time champion jockey Peter and grandson of Gold Cup and Grand National winning jockey Michael, is planning to give a point-to-point debut to Admiral Oxo, a four-year-old gelding and one of 12 entries in a race which opens Sunday’s card at Chaddesley Corbett in Worcestershire (11.00). The contest is the season’s only point-to-point limited to four-year-olds, but over the years it has thrown up some talented youngsters who have gone on to score under rules.
A successful jockey in his own right who began racing in point-to-points and then stacked up 1,499 jumping winners before retiring from the saddle in February 2023, Tom (pictured above) is now based near Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire at a yard where his grandfather and then his brother, Michael, sent out winners. He says of Admiral Oxo: “Providing the rain keeps coming he will run. We bought him at Doncaster 18 months ago and hoped to run him earlier this year, but the ground went against us – as it did for so many people. It was probably just as well because he was a little immature and the extra time will have done no harm.
“He’s owned by myself and a group of friends. We buy a point-to-pointer each year with a view to selling them on. We give them all the prefix Oxo, which was the name of the horse on which my grandfather won the Grand National. John Nallen [trader of horses in Ireland] names all his horses Minella, and we’re doing a similar thing.” That’ll Be Oxo, a horse who Scudamore pre-trained and then sold to trainers Kim Bailey and Mat Nicholls, made his racing debut in the bumper at Southwell this afternoon (Tuesday) and finished third of nine runners.
Despite thriving on the thrill of race riding Scudamore says he has no ambition to train under rules. He says: “I want to be known for producing well-prepared young stock and being a developer of such horses. The thrill comes with the point-to-pointers. I love that side of the business and have about seven pointers to run this season.”
A broken leg and ankle means Izzie Hill will miss the Chaddesley Corbett meeting and the ride on another debutant, Barito, who is trained by her husband, Joe. He has found a ready replacement in men’s champion James King. Joe says: “We take horses up to Olly Murphy’s gallops now and again and James had sat on Barito there. He also came in this morning to school and gallop the horse.
“He’s a lovely horse who Ed Bailey [bloodstock agent] and I bought in France as a two-year-old. At the time we had his full-brother, Paul Manate, who had just finished fourth on debut and who we liked a lot, so we were pleased to get this one [for €25,000]. We broke him in at two, gave him the winter off then did a bit more work with him at three and he was ready to run in the spring of this year, but the ground became too quick and we decided to wait. Another summer off has done him the world of good.
Joe Hill, who runs Barito in the next race in the GB Pointing YHM Series (Ce)
“He went to Chaddesley Corbett in February when they had a schooling race and he went well with some handicap chasers. He did two miles that day on pretty attritional ground and he handled it well. He’s owned by a group of lads who have been good supporters of our yard.”
Sunday’s contest includes entries from a number of yards associated with the producing and selling of young point-to-pointers. Bradley Gibbs has entered Briskalo, who has the benefit of a couple of runs in Irish point-to-points, and I’m Like A Lion who ran in a flat race at Lower Machen last month.
Gina Andrews has added L’Hybris Is Born to the list of possible contenders, while Josh Newman has put two into the race including Millyellen who shaped with real promise when fourth at Lower Machen in the inaugural race in the GB Pointing YHM Series. The winner of that race, Baron Du Brizais, was sold for £90,000 at Goffs Coral Gold Cup Sale on Saturday evening.
Will Biddick and Fran Poste, two trainers who have sold a number of winners under rules, have entered Uncle Boss and Saint Arion respectively, while the Michael Kehoe-trained Tombereau is another with racing experience having finished second in a Larkhill flat race last season.
Chaddesley Corbett’s contest is the third in a 15-race series which has been backed by the British Horseracing Authority and Horserace Betting Levy Board. Individual races are being sponsored by the bloodstock auctioneers Tattersalls Cheltenham and Goffs. The series aims to highlight young British pointers and raise the profile of those who are subsequently offered for sale. Winners of each race can earn a bonus of £25,000 if bred in Britain, or £15,000 if bred overseas, should they be successful in a developmental hurdle or chase within two years from the yard of a licence holder based in Britain.
Winners of a GB Pointing young-horse maiden race land one of the two bonuses if subsequently successful in any of the following:
Footnote: Michael Scudamore’s 1959 victory in the Grand National on Oxo came at the expense of second-placed Wyndburgh who was ridden by Tim Brookshaw. His name lives on in the world of point-to-pointing today through his great niece, Heidi, who trains in Shropshire.
To watch a film of that race, and Brookshaw’s admirable feat of horsemanship at a time when the National fences were very big and stiff, click on the following:
