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Racegoers were treated to some excellent racing on Easter Monday in bright windy conditions, escaping heavy rain just before and after racing. On Good Friday a few days earlier, there was a celebration lunch to commemorate 100 years of racing at the track, which had been delayed two years due to Covid.
Thirty-seven runners contested the six races, and the notable achievements were Aimee Jones riding her first winner in the Mixed Open on Wheesht and Jack Andrews his two hundredth winners in all codes. Tom Ellis had a training double with Wicked Thoughts in the four- and five-year-old Maiden, and Champagne Noir in the eight-year-old and over Conditions Race. Heidi Brookshaw also had a training double courtesy of Wheesht and Ballyrath in the Members.
Andrews bided his time on the four-year-old Wicked Thoughts behind Nick the Greek and Admiral Fitz, but when he took it up at the third last, he quickened clear to win by eighteen lengths from Admiral Fitz in a four second faster time than the subsequent Mixed Open winner Wheesht took over the same two-and-a-half-mile trip. Ellis bought the Mahler gelding at Doncaster May Sales last year and he’s now entered for the Point-to-Point Sale at Aintree after racing on Thursday. He certainly looks one to watch for the future. The twenty-four-year-old Andrews has now ridden 157 pointing winners and 43 in national hunt racing, which is a notable achievement for someone so young.
The second leg of the Ellis double came courtesy of Champagne Noir, where Ellie Holder held him up until after the second-last and came with a well-timed run to catch the leader Ryan’s Fancy on the run-in and win by a length, bringing up a hat-trick of wins in similar races this season.
In the Mixed Open, Jones challenged on Wheesht at the second last and stayed on well to beat the fast-finishing What a Glance by a length-and-a-half. The eighteen-year-old student at Wrekin College is now in her second season riding for Heidi Brookshaw. The nine-year-old mare had run well when placed in some very competitive races and was rewarded for her consistency.
In the opening Members Race, there was a competitive look with seven runners, and Tommie O’Brien tried to make all on Ballyrath, but was passed by Iola Hopkinson on Dounikos at the third last. However, O’Brien persevered and rode a strong finish to get up again on the flat and win by half-a-length.
Natalie Parker came home alone on the Sam Loxton trained Ihandaya, after both of her rivals pulled up. Loxton said he is no hurry to go chasing with his improving young charge and may have another point outing this season. He also thought that his stable stalwart Caid Du Berlais, who ran a lacklustre race to finish fourth in the earlier Mixed Open, would now be retired.
There was an exciting finish for the Maidens Conditions Race with Guy Sankey on Trip Switch having a great tussle with Tommie O’Brien on Shady B from the second last, eventually winning by a head. The six-year-old winner had been runner-up in a Market Rasen bumper in December for Dan Skelton, before being acquired by Will Kinsey for the Three O’Clock Fox Partnership for £7,000 and was put into training with Steven Wynne. The four partners are the rider Guy Sankey, Robin Williams, and the brothers Oliver and Adam Wadlow. The latter has done a great job as Clerk of the Course and there were many compliments on the day for the state of the track.
