PONTEFRACT SEASON 2018.Monday 11th June.
Welcome to this our 5th meeting of the year and their 2nd evening meeting.
We welcome our 5th meeting here this season and following the success of the events in 2016 and 2017, Rugby League Evening is back even bigger and better in 2018! We’re lucky enough to have some fantastic sporting action on our doorstep in West Yorkshire. Not only do we have racing here in Pontefract, we have some world class Rugby League teams too. Castleford Tigers, Wakefield Trinity, Huddersfield Giants and Featherstone Rovers were all integral in the success of the evening last year and will be back again in 2018!
On Monday evening 11th June, you’ll get the best of both worlds as players and coaches from all these teams will be coming racing and mingling with the crowds!
There’ll be 6 unforgettable races as well, featuring the Mr Wolf Sprint which commemorates one of the all time Pontefract greats. Runners in this race have a real mountain to climb to emulate ‘Wolfie’ who ran at Pontefract an incredible 36 times, winning here 8 times in total. He was a true Ponte legend and his brave front running style used to have his rivals in trouble from early on in the race. His final race at Pontefract was on 29th July 2012 and he’s currently enjoying retirement on his owner’s farm.
A mixed start to the season means we are currently down by -7.59 to Starting Prices so we can hopefully kick on from there tonight. We will continue throughout this season to record ALL results for these fixtures which are returned to a level stake at Starting Price (SP), and will also show any forecast results too in the daily results but these do not count for the profit / loss figures.
The forecast going is now currently reported as 'Good to firm' the weather for Monday evening is for a partly cloudy day with some showers due and a forecast maximum temperature around the 22C mark.
Here are our selections for the 6 races on Monday evening, remember it's a very simple selection process using stalls 1 and 2 in every race;
6:40 6f Novice Stakes (2yo Fillies).
(1) -- PINK ICEBURG [WON 9/4].
(2) -- COMEDY [4th 11/8F].
7:10 2m 1f 27yds Handicap.
(1) -- BECKY THE THATCHER [WON 5/4F].
(2) -- TYRELL [3rd 9/2].
7:40 6f Mr Wolf Spring Handicap (3yo).
(1) -- BLACK FRIDAY [3rd 5/1].
(2) -- CHOOKIE DUNEDIN [6th 7/1].
8:10 1m 4f 5yds Handicap.
(1) -- FINAL [2nd 7/2].
(2) -- BAYDAR [Non Runner].
8:40 6f Handicap.
(1) -- ALFIE'S ANGEL [12th 8/1].
(2) -- SWISSAL [Non Runner].
9:10 5f 3yds Handicap.
(1) -- MUSHARRIF [6th 16/1].
(2) -- DAPPER MAN [2nd 3/1].
Staked -- 12 points.
Last season might have been a bit of a blowout compared to recent years, and the last meeting resulted in our running total standing at -7.59 point loss (to SP). Results from tonight will be updated later on at the end of the meeting. Just the pair of winners early on and a couple of non runners mean another small loss overall tonight of -4.5 points putting us out to -12.09 overall.
Our next meeting will be on Sunday 24th June. Keep following us throughout the season.
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