PONTEFRACT HORSE RACING SYSTEM -- 2019 SEASON -- MEETING #14

PONTEFRACT SEASON 2019.

Welcome to our fourteenth meeting of the season on Thursday 26th September. 

1st race 2:15pm, gates open from around midday.

As the Summer draws to an end and the Autumn sets in, we wind down our season with four midweek race meetings where it’s all about the racing. We have two Thursday meetings in September and two Monday meetings in October and the second of the All About the Racing Racedays is held at Pontefract Racecourse on Thursday 26th September. With just shy of 2 months left in the 2019 flat calendar, trainers are looking to finish their horses’ campaigns off so expect plenty of competitive racing and exciting finishes!

On Thursday there are 7 exciting races on the card getting underway at 2:15pm. The highlight on the day is the Simon Scrope Dalby Screw-Driver Handicap [4:00pm]. Back in the 19th century, 'Screw Driver' grabbed the hearts of the Ponte public and got their pulses racing. He won 2 Cup races which consisted of four heats over 2 miles on the same day with the winner being the horse with the best aggregate score over the 8 miles! He is also the earliest Pontefract course specialist on record! The highly talented Francis Xavier (below) was a classy winner of the 2019 renewal – he took on Elarqam and co first time out this year but got off the mark in 2019 when winning at Ascot earlier in the month.

There’s a strong supporting card with something for everyone, even had a 100-1 winner of the opening 2yo maiden last year when 'Our Rodney' popped in for trainer Donald McCain jnr.

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 -39.90 points to SP as we come into the fourteenth meeting and are now heading towards to final few 'furlongs' of the season. The forecast going is now currently reported as 'Good to Firm, Good in places' and our weather for Thursday 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.

A link to this afternoon's race card can be found here

Here are our selections for the seven races on Thursday afternoon, remember it's a very simple selection process using stalls one and two in every race;

14:15 6f Maiden Stakes (2yo).
(1) -- ALBEN SPIRIT  [WON 7/4f].
(2) -- CAPTAIN CORELLI  [3rd 25/1].

14:50 1m 6y Fillies Nursery Handicap (2yo).
(1) -- WALKONBY  [WON 2/1f].
(2) -- HIGH FLYING BIRD  [2nd 3/1].

15:25 6f Handicap.
(1) -- MR ORANGE  [6th 7/1].
(2) -- REFLEKTOR  [Non Runner].

16:00 1m 2f 5y Handicap.
(1) -- AWAKE MY SOUL  [].
(2) -- AYUTTHAYA  [WON 10/11f].

16:35 1m 6y Novice Stakes (2yo).
(1) -- BRINGITONBORIS  [5th 14/1].
(2) -- JERVAULX  [Non Runner].

17:05 5f 3y Handicap.
(1) -- SHEEPSCAR LAD  [3rd 5/2].
(2) -- JOHNNY CAVAGIN  [5th 7/2].

17:40 1m 4f 5y Apprentice Handicap.
(1) -- QASR  [Non Runner].
(2) -- DANCE KING  [3rd 5/1].

Staked -- 14 points.
Returns -- 10.66 points.

As we reach the conclusion of the 2019 season it's been a sad story of chasing our losses, while the selections are out of our hands with this system we are on a deficit of -39.90 coming into our fourteenth meeting today with just another two meetings to follow this. A loss of -3.34 points today so we have a deficit of -43.24 overall.

Our next meeting here will be held on MONDAY 7th OCTOBER so we really hope you will stick with us till the end of the season.