PONTEFRACT SEASON 2019.
Welcome to our fifteenth meeting of the season on Monday 7th October.
1st race 2:00pm, gates open from around midday. * Inspection at 7am Monday, as a result of this inspection today's meeting has been abandoned due to a waterlogged course.
It’s the penultimate raceday of the 2019 season at Pontefract and the third of the ‘All About the Racing’ Racedays on Monday 7th October. With just shy of a month left in the 2019 flat calendar, trainers are looking to get their final turf runs into their horses’ campaigns and hopefully finish the season off in style.
On Monday there are seven exciting races on the card which will get underway at 2.00pm. The track holds a 1m2f race for two-year-olds and this is one of the longest races run in the UK for young horses and has been won by horses who have gone on to prove their abundant stamina. William Muir’s tough ‘Just Hubert’ won last year and has won three times this season while Mark Johnston had the first and second in 2017 with his talented stayers 'Austrian School' and 'Making Miracles'. With a stiff finish, Pontefract is one of the more testing courses in Britain and a tough gritty horse is needed. So who will add their name to the role of honour for this year?
The feature race on the card is the £15,000 Leslie Burton (Fisher) Handicap [15:00] which was won last year by Hughie Morrison’s ‘Sod’s Law’ (pictured left). There’s also the penultimate round of the 2019 Pontefract Stayers Championship [15:30] in which there looks like being a grandstand finish as Rubenesque and Forewarning look to continue their battle for supremacy in the title of Ponte’s top stayer in 2019. We also caught glimpse of a future Triumph Hurdle contestant when Nelson River was runner up to Sempre Presto in the 1m4f handicap. The previous year, Cornerstone Lad took the honours so keep an eye out for a few future hurdlers lurking amongst the entries again this season.
On Monday there are seven exciting races on the card which will get underway at 2.00pm. The track holds a 1m2f race for two-year-olds and this is one of the longest races run in the UK for young horses and has been won by horses who have gone on to prove their abundant stamina. William Muir’s tough ‘Just Hubert’ won last year and has won three times this season while Mark Johnston had the first and second in 2017 with his talented stayers 'Austrian School' and 'Making Miracles'. With a stiff finish, Pontefract is one of the more testing courses in Britain and a tough gritty horse is needed. So who will add their name to the role of honour for this year?
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 -43.24 points to SP as we come into the fifteenth meeting and are now heading towards to final few 'furlongs' of the season. The forecast going is now currently reported as 'Soft, heavy in places' and our weather for Monday afternoon is for a wet day with plenty of rain likely to arrive, the forecast maximum temperature around the 12C mark.
A link to this afternoon's race card can be found here
Here are our selections for the eight races on Monday afternoon, remember it's a very simple selection process using stalls one and two in every race;
To confirm again that today's meeting has been abandoned due to a waterlogged track with further rain expected on Monday. The FINAL meeting will hopefully take place here on 21st October.
To confirm again that today's meeting has been abandoned due to a waterlogged track with further rain expected on Monday. The FINAL meeting will hopefully take place here on 21st October.
14:00 1m 2f 5y Novice Stakes (2yo).
(1) -- JUSTIFIED.
(2) -- SALAMANCA SCHOOL.
14:30 6f Nursery Handicap (2yo).
(1) -- SPYGATE.
(2) -- STROXX.
15:00 1m 6y Handicap (3yo).
(1) -- CHAIRMANOFTHEBOARD.
(2) -- MODAKHAR.
15:30 2m 2f 2y Handicap.
(1) -- BODACIOUS NAME.
(2) -- SOFT SUMMER RAIN.
16:00 1m 6y Handicap (Div One).
(1) -- VIVE LE DIFFERENCE.
(2) -- SILVER DUST.
16:30 1m 6y Handicap (Div Two).
(1) -- INTERNATIONAL LAW.
(2) -- FRANKSTER.
17:00 1m 4f 5y Handicap (3yo).
(1) -- GRAZEON ROY.
(2) -- LINCOLN TALE.
17:30 1m 6y Maiden.
(1) -- CATHEDRAL STREET.
(2) -- WEMYSS WARE.
Staked -- 16 points.
Returns -- 16 points.
Our last meeting for 2019 here will be held on MONDAY 21st OCTOBER so we really hope you will join us for the finale.
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