🏇 PONTEFRACT HORSE RACING SYSTEM -- 2021 SEASON -- MEETING #3 28th APRIL

 

PONTEFRACT SEASON 2021.

Welcome to our third meeting of the season taking place on Wednesday 28th April. 

1st race 2.00pm.
Going: Good to firm [Good in places] 

Until further notice race meetings will be run ‘behind closed doors’ with no admittance for the general public. The 2021 racing season at Pontefract is under way and we move onto the third meeting now. Tickets are now being sold for future events and selling quickly, it will be nice to see a big attendance at courses around the country for the summer.

NATIONAL HORSERACING COLLEGE CHARITY DAY
This is the third race meeting behind closed doors and the racecourse is hosting it's Annual National Horseracing College Charity Day! This is a unique day in the racing calendar when bookmakers come together to offer their support to the National Horseracing College by sponsoring some of the races on the card.  Based in Doncaster, we’re proud to continue our association and support of the college who offer a range of courses at all levels for people looking at horseracing as a future career and those currently working in the industry wishing to develop their qualifications and skills. Racing begins at 2pm with a seven race card and the feature race named after today's Charity event 'National Horseracing College Charity Day Handicap' off at 3:10pm sadly appears that small fields are the order of the day.

ALL 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. Following a winning opening meeting we suffered a small loss in the second resulting in a deficit of -3.3 points to carry onto this third meeting this afternoon.

Going / Weather: The forecast going is now currently reported as 'Good to firm [Good in places]' while the weather for Wednesday afternoon is for a generally cloudy day with some chance of showers but hopefully not too much. We are seeing a forecast maximum temperature around the 11C mark.

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

14:00  Racing With Pride And National Horseracing College EBF Novice Stakes

5f 3y  (Class 4  6 runners)
(1) -- Kenyan Commander  [4th @22/1].
(2) -- Province  [5th @22/1].

14:35  tote Celebrating The Team At The National Horseracing College Handicap

1m 2f 5y  (Class 5  5 runners)
(1) -- Regal Mirage  [2nd @7/4f].
(2) -- Framley Garth  [5th @50/1].

15:10  National Horseracing College Charity Day Handicap

1m 6y  (Class 4  4 runners)

(1) -- Cote d'Azur  [2nd @6/4f].
(2) -- Perfect Swiss  [3rd @5/1].

15:50  Women In Racing And National Horseracing College Handicap
6f  (Class 4  7 runners)

(1) -- True Mason  [Non Runner].

(2) -- Triggered  [Non Runner].

16:25  Tuffa Boots Supports The National Horseracing College Handicap (3yo)

6f  (Class 5  9 runners)

(1) -- Tiny Danser  [2nd @12/1].
(2) -- Footstepstothehart  [6th @13/2].

17:00  Trustees Of The National Horseracing College/British EBF Maiden (3yo)

1m 2f 5y  (Class 5  3 runners)

(1) -- King Frankel  [Won @4/5f].
(2) -- Gurkha's Surprise  [3rd @125/1].

17:30  Go Racing In Yorkshire Future Stars Apprentice Handicap

5f 3y  (Class 5  6 runners)

(1) -- Soul Seeker  [Won @7/4f].

(2) -- Ventura Empress  [2nd @Evens].

Staked -- 14 points.

Returns -- 6.55 points.

Having started the 2021 season afresh, we begun reasonably well and with a full season on the track we look forward to a successful year, alas the opening few fixtures will be behind closed doors. After the opening two meetings we are sadly -3.3 points behind coming into this third fixture, the results for today will be updated during the afternoon. Sadly another losing meeting, couldn't find that elusive big winner yet, still wasn't too bad losing -7.45 today but we are now -10.75 overall. 

The fourth fixture here will be the first with an attendance (hopefully) an evening fixture to be held on Friday 28th May so we do hope you will follow the action here throughout the season.