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Trainer/rider Josh Newman is eyeing a £15,000 bonus and a spin around the ring at Tattersalls Cheltenham sale after winning the weekend’s two races in the GB Pointing Young Horse Maiden Series.
Over a two-day spell in which he sent out six winners and rode five himself, Somerset-based Newman partnered Electric City to win the young-horse maiden at Didmarton in Gloucestershire on Saturday, then followed up in a similar race at Charlton Horethorne in Dorset the following day when riding Micky Haller (pictured above). Both races were sponsored by bloodstock auctioneers Tattersalls Cheltenham.
Looking ahead Newman said five-year-old Electric City remains on the premises, but will at some point switch into the licensed yard run by his wife, Kayley Woollacott, while Micky Haller (Lot 13) heads to the Tattersalls Cheltenham Festival Sale which takes place after racing on Thursday.
Electric City’s victory in Didmarton’s six-runner race was due reward for some solid efforts in defeat this season, initially while stabled in Devon with Ian Chanin. At Dunsmore in November he chased home the Newman-trained-and-ridden Woodstock Octo – who has scored twice more since – and, after joining Newman’s 30-strong team of point-to-pointers, he then followed Six Two Three home at Badbury Rings.
Newman said of the gelding, who is owned by The Kayley Woollacott Racing Syndicate: “Saturday’s win was his second run for us after he had previously been with Ian Chanin. We heard he was for sale, and after he was second at Dunsmore we jumped in and built up a syndicate for him. We thought he would be a horse to go under rules, which he will do next season.
Electric City (Josh Newman) is up and over the last at Didmarton on Saturday (Alun Sedgmore)
“My chief concern on Saturday was that he had run two weeks earlier at Badbury Rings and would the race come too quickly? It probably did take a bit of an edge off him, but he still ran all the way to the line and is a very nice horse going forward. He might run once more this season and then go under rules, where a £15,000 bonus would help.”
The GB Pointing Young Horse Maiden Series is backed by the BHA and Horserace Betting Levy Board to the tune of £250,000 and offers winners in the scheduled 15-race series the chance to gain a cash bonus if they go on to win developmental hurdle races or chases within two years from a licensed yard in Britain. Horses bred overseas – like Electric City who was bred in Ireland – can win £15,000, while GB-bred horses stand to gain £25,000.
Micky Haller, a four-year-old son of Gloucester-based veteran stallion Passing Glance, was bred in Britain by former trainer Kevin Bishop, and is therefore eligible for a £25,000 bonus. That will be a handy element to put before potential buyers when he enters the sales ring at Cheltenham later this week.
Newman said: “He’s a typical four-year-old, and while he was a bit green he won nicely on Sunday. Once we turned for home I always felt I was on the winner. He got a bit tight to the last fence, but picked up and ran home strongly.
“He was our first four-year-old runner of the season, so it was nice to start with a winner and take some pressure off. He beat a nice horse of Chris Barber’s [Noble Thistle] who was trying to do the same thing, but we’re all trying to saddle winners.”
Auctioneers Goffs will sponsor the next race in the series, which takes place at Buckfastleigh in Devon on Saturday.
Full reports from Didmarton (Andrew King) and Charlton Horethorne (Bob Bracher) to follow
