PONTEFRACT SEASON 2019.
Welcome to our tenth meeting of the season on Sunday 28th July.
1st race 2.20pm, gates open from around midday.
Our renowned Sunday fixtures are not only feature the best racing of the year at Pontefract with over £100,000 worth of Prize Money available at each meeting, but they are also the three fixtures each season dedicated to families. As well as special events on each Sunday race day, there will also be a funfair, face-painting, circus, free sweets, activity packs and racecards for kids, pony rides, trips to the starts of races and a ‘Hunt The Golden Horseshoe’ competition on every Family Day.
Our second Family Sunday is the Lookalike Legends Family Day and we’ll have 3 fantastic acts performing throughout the afternoon. There'll be a really fun, family atmosphere. We have Classic Kylie (11.50am to 12.30pm) and TotOlly Murs (12.4pm to 1.20pm) before racing and Totally Take That (5.45pm to 6.45pm) after the last race!
It's also the 12th Go Racing in Yorkshire Summer Festival which kicked off at Ripon on Saturday 20th July and concludes with the Pontefract Family Day on Sunday 28th July. With racing throughout the White Rose county all week, it’s a Festival to remember for racing enthusiasts.
The meeting kicks off with The British Stallion Studs EBF Maiden Stakes [2.20] run over 5 furlongs and won last year by Richard Fahey’s Flawless Jewel who bolted up to win by an astonishing 16 lengths. Fahey was top trainer for last year’s Go Racing In Yorkshire Summer Festival and will certainly have his eye on retaining the prize this year.
The ITV7 Starts Now Handicap Stakes is our second race on the card [2.50] and has been won by David Allan and Tim Easterby for the past two years, most recently with Multellie. The final race of the afternoon is The Fly High Faye Nickels Handicap Stakes and was won convincingly by Classic Pursuit to seal a four-timer for De Sousa.
The feature on track is The Sky Bet Go-Racing-In-Yorkshire Summer Festival Pomfret Stakes [3.55] and is our third listed race of the season, and was won last year by Big Country (pictured left) for trainer Michael Appleby, who then went on to run in Group races in Norway and Sweden. That victory was the second of four on the day for Silvestre De Sousa and trainer Michael Appleby. Champion jockey, De Sousa, has already enjoyed success at Ponte this season having ridden a treble here in June. Who will win in 2019?
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 small loss last time which does mean we are still trailing on -29.325 points to SP as we come into the tenth meeting and are now just over the half way point of our season. The forecast going is now currently reported as 'Good, Good to firm in places' and our weather for Sunday afternoon is for a generally warm 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.Our second Family Sunday is the Lookalike Legends Family Day and we’ll have 3 fantastic acts performing throughout the afternoon. There'll be a really fun, family atmosphere. We have Classic Kylie (11.50am to 12.30pm) and TotOlly Murs (12.4pm to 1.20pm) before racing and Totally Take That (5.45pm to 6.45pm) after the last race!
It's also the 12th Go Racing in Yorkshire Summer Festival which kicked off at Ripon on Saturday 20th July and concludes with the Pontefract Family Day on Sunday 28th July. With racing throughout the White Rose county all week, it’s a Festival to remember for racing enthusiasts.
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The ITV7 Starts Now Handicap Stakes is our second race on the card [2.50] and has been won by David Allan and Tim Easterby for the past two years, most recently with Multellie. The final race of the afternoon is The Fly High Faye Nickels Handicap Stakes and was won convincingly by Classic Pursuit to seal a four-timer for De Sousa.
Here are our selections for the seven races on Sunday afternoon, remember it's a very simple selection process using stalls one and two in every race;
14.20 5f 3y Maiden Stakes (2yo).(1) -- ZAKHER ALAIN [6th 33/1].
(2) -- QUEEN'S ORDER [2nd 11/4].
14:50 1m 4f 5y Handicap.
(1) -- SEMPRE PRESTO [3rd 11/2].
(2) -- VINTAGE ROSE [2nd 25/1].
15:20 1m 2f 5y Handicap.
(1) -- BILLY ROBERTS [5th 15/8f].
(2) -- PETE SO HIGH [8th 20/1].
15:55 1m 6y Pomfret Stakes (Listed).
(1) -- KHAFOO SHEMEMI [3rd 6/4f].
(2) -- LUSH LIFE [Non Runner].
16:30 6f Handicap.
(1) -- MAGICAL EFFECT [3rd 11/4f].
(2) -- SOCIETY QUEEN [5th 11/2].
17:05 1m 6y Maiden (3yo).
(1) -- JAGERBOND [7th 100/1].
(2) -- JOYFUL MISSION [WON 4/5f].
17:40 5f 3y Handicap.
(1) -- HIGHLY FOCUSSED [9th 20/1].
(2) -- SUPER JULIUS [2nd 11/4f].
Staked -- 14 points.
Returns -- 2.8 points.
(1) -- HIGHLY FOCUSSED [9th 20/1].
(2) -- SUPER JULIUS [2nd 11/4f].
Staked -- 14 points.
Returns -- 2.8 points.
Having started the 2019 season afresh, we fell behind early on and have been trying to catch up since. Currently showing a deficit of -29.325 coming into our tenth meeting today. Still six more meetings to come after this one. Just the one winner today and plenty of places but does mean we lost another -11.2 points this afternoon sadly putting us on -40.525 overall.
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