PONTEFRACT SEASON 2019.
Welcome to our ninth meeting of the season on Friday 19th July.
1st race 6.25pm, gates open from around 4pm.
Our final evening meeting of this season takes place at Pontefract on Friday 19th July and is also the second night of our Music Night Series, accompanied by our Red Shirt Night in aid of the superb Injured Jockeys Fund and also a Beer Festival. It promises to be a fantastic evening with six great races followed by the UK’s best Abba tribute band, Fabba Girls, performing after the conclusion of the last race. The evening will be a fund raiser for the incredible Injured Jockeys Fund through Jack Berry’s historic ‘Red Shirt Night’. The Red Shirt is purely optional – just bring yourself, your friends and your party spirit. This amazing charity has helped injured jockeys get back to race riding fitter and quicker than imagined.
We welcome back a whole host of old friends for our Beer Festival. Pennie Brewery, Revolutions Brewing Co, Ossett Brewery and Bier Huis will all be joining us, where they will be offering some of the best beers, lagers and ales that Yorkshire has to offer.
The meeting kicks off at 18:25 with the Lucy Steven’s 30th Birthday Celebrations EBF Novice Auction Stakes for 2-year olds. This will be third running of the race and Richard Fahey’s Metallic Black won this convincingly by 4 lengths last year to Forcetoreckon. The feature on track is the VW Volkswagen Van Centre (Leeds) Ltd Optional Handicap Stakes [20:00] run over a mile, and was won last year by Waarif in a competitive race. Waarif has gone on to register four wins over the same distance, the most recent at Windsor at the end of June.
Our third race on the card, the Betfred Supports Jack Berry House Handicap Stakes [19:30], will catch the eye of racing fans, having produced horses that have gone on to perform at the highest level. The race is run over 5f and last year was won by Watchable (pictured above), who cruised home to win by a 1½ lengths for David O’Meara. Watchable, now 9 years young, was recently seen at the Investec Derby day making all to break the track record over 6 furlongs. Final Venture won this race in 2016 and just five months later headed to Meydan (Dubai), and won twice there for his current trainer Paul Midgley, who boasts an impressive four wins in this race. If we see anything of that quality this year we are in for a treat tonight.
The final race on the card is the John Nixon Supports Jack Berry House Handicap Stakes [21:05], run over 6 furlongs, which was won by Etikaal last year, steered home by the season’s leading jockey at Pontefract Ben Curtis. After the conclusion of this race, the critically acclaimed Fabba Girls will be performing on the raised grass area next to the Parade Ring. If you want a night out with racing, music and a beer festival, this is the place for you.
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| Jack Berry House, home of the Injured Jockeys Fund HQ -- Give Generously. |
The meeting kicks off at 18:25 with the Lucy Steven’s 30th Birthday Celebrations EBF Novice Auction Stakes for 2-year olds. This will be third running of the race and Richard Fahey’s Metallic Black won this convincingly by 4 lengths last year to Forcetoreckon. The feature on track is the VW Volkswagen Van Centre (Leeds) Ltd Optional Handicap Stakes [20:00] run over a mile, and was won last year by Waarif in a competitive race. Waarif has gone on to register four wins over the same distance, the most recent at Windsor at the end of June.
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| WATCHABLE, winner here 2018 |
The final race on the card is the John Nixon Supports Jack Berry House Handicap Stakes [21:05], run over 6 furlongs, which was won by Etikaal last year, steered home by the season’s leading jockey at Pontefract Ben Curtis. After the conclusion of this race, the critically acclaimed Fabba Girls will be performing on the raised grass area next to the Parade Ring. If you want a night out with racing, music and a beer festival, this is the place for you.
ALL of our results for these fixtures are recorded 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. We arrive here on the back of a tiny winning meeting last time out which stopped the decline but does mean we are still trailing on -25.655 points to SP as we come into the ninth meeting which means we are just over the half way point of our season. The forecast going is now currently reported as 'Good to firm' and our weather for Friday evening is for a generally cloudy day with plenty of humidity and a good chance of some light rain showers and we've a forecast maximum temperature around the 19C mark.
Here are our selections for the six races on Friday evening, remember it's a very simple selection process using stalls one and two in every race;
18:25 6f Novice Stakes (2yo).
(1) -- POP DANCER [2nd 7/4].
(2) -- HONNOLD [6th 40/1].
18:55 1m 4f 5y Novice Stakes (3yo).
(1) -- TRIBAL CRAFT [WON 5/6f].
(2) -- JUKEBOX BLUES [3rd 20/1].
19:30 5f 3y Jack Berry House Handicap.
(1) -- DAPPER MAN [5th 2/1].
(2) -- CORINTHA KNIGHT [WON 9/2].
20:00 1m 6y Handicap.
(1) -- MAX ZORIN [8th 14/1].
(2) -- BROTHER MCGONAGALL [5th 16/1].
20:35 1m 2f 5y Maiden Handicap.
(1) -- NO DRESS REHEARSAL [3rd 7/2].
(2) -- FRANKADORE [Non Runner].
21:05 6f Handicap.
(1) -- RICKYROADBOY [6th 8/1].
(2) -- RIQUINTO DAWN [2nd 14/1].
Staked -- 12 points.
Returns -- 8.33 points.
Having passed the halfway mark now for the 2019 season it's disappointing not to have seen that big win yet and as such we move forwards forever hopeful the second half of the season can be an improvement we now have a deficit of -25.655 coming into our ninth meeting today. Just 2 winners and a NR tonight means we lose -3.67 taking us to -29.325 overall with our tenth meeting coming up on Sunday week.
Our next meeting here will be on Sunday 28th July right after our coverage of Goodwood ends so we do hope to see you then.
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