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Barton Snow, the top hunter chaser on either side of the Irish Sea will not be taking up his entry when the point-to-point season opens at Lower Machen on Sunday.
Trainer Joe O’Shea, who is based in Cheshire, calls upon Boley Bob (pictured above, winning at Guilsborough last season) as his representative in the men’s open race, while he also plans to saddle the smart St Cuthbert’s Cave in the ladies’ open and unraced five-year-old Frankelly in the point-to-point flat race. Ellie Callwood rides St Cuthbert’s Cave, while Henry Crow rides the other two.
Ellie Callwood, who rides O’Shea’s runner St Cuthberts Cave in the ladies’ open race (Ce)
Despite Barton Snow’s memorable victories last season O’Shea says he is the second-best horse in his yard. Speaking from there this afternoon, O’Shea said: “Boley Bob is the best horse I’ve ever trained – I told you that after Aintree [following Barton Snow’s Foxhunters’ Chase win] and I’m telling you again.
“He won’t be fully wound up for Sunday, I’d say he’ll be 70 per cent ready. Put it this way he’s 12kg heavier than he was at Kelso [when winning the Buccleuch Cup in April]. He’s only half-qualified for Cheltenham at the moment and needs to win an open race. The plan is to find him one more point-to-point at the end of November and then the easiest hunters’ chase possible in the New Year, and then he can go to Haydock for the Walrus Hunters’ Chase.
“He’ll probably take on Barton Snow in that race, which will sort out who’s best. I think the world of him [Boley Bob]. He’s a dour stayer, a proper Cheltenham horse.”
Of Barton Snow he said: “He’s just not quite ready. Another week and he’ll nearly be there. We might take him down the West Country for his first point-to-point, or he could go to Hexham. He’s only small and his owners don’t want him carrying 12st so a ladies’ open race and 11st might be the way we go.”
