🏇 PONTEFRACT HORSE RACING SYSTEM - 2021 SEASON - MEETING #2 19th APRIL

PONTEFRACT SEASON 2021.

Welcome to this our second meeting of the season taking place on Monday 19th April. 

1st race 1.00pm.
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 second 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.

The 2nd meeting of the season features the equine equivalent of the London Marathon! The Pontefract Marathon is the longest flat handicap race run in Britain! At 2m 5f 139yds all round, you need a brave, staying horse to get home up the famous ‘Ponte’ hill!  As well as the Pontefract Marathon (Round 2 of the Stayers Championship) at 2pm, there are six other exciting races to enjoy starting at 1pm.

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 couple of winners in the opening meeting we have a small profit of +0.2 points to carry onto this week.

The forecast going is now currently reported as 'Good to firm [Good in places]' while the weather for Monday 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 16C mark.

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

13:00  Northern Commercials Iveco And Fiat EBF Novice Stakes

5f 3y  (Class 5  4 runners)
(1) -- Come Quick  [2nd @5/2].
(2) -- Tothenines  [Non Runner].

13:30  RIU Hotels And Resorts Handicap

5f 3y  (Class 2  6 runners)
(1) -- Justanotherbottle  [2nd @4/1].
(2) -- Caspian Prince  [4th @7/2].

14:00  Into The Sky Pontefract Marathon Handicap

2m 5f 139y  (Class 5  11 runners)

(1) -- Wemyss Point  [WON @5/2f].
(2) -- Uncle Bernie  [5th @10/1].

14:30  Napoleons Casino Bradford Handicap
1m 6y  (Class 5  11 runners)

(1) -- Cote d'Azur  [2nd @10/3f].
(2) -- Irv  [5th @11/2].

15:00  Join Racing TV Now Handicap

5f 3y  (Class 5  6 runners)

(1) -- Ventura Express  [WON @5/1].

(2) -- Mutabaahy  [4th @9/2].

15:30  tiesplanet.com Fillies' Novice Stakes

6f  (Class 5  8 runners)

(1) -- Three Hat Day  [4th @11/2].
(2) -- Midnight Stripper  [5th @9/1].

16:00  Father's Day Racing 20th June Handicap

1m 6y  (Class 5  8 runners)

(1) -- Alba De Tormes  [6th @3/1].
(2) -- Tellmeyourstory  [5th @6/1].

Staked -- 14 points.

Returns -- 10.5 points.

We started the 2021 season afresh, at least we appear to be on track to have a full program this time, alas the opening few fixtures will be behind closed door. After the opening meeting we are +0.2 points ahead (every little helps eh) today's results will be updated during the afternoon. Just the pair of winners and one non runner for us today so we lost -3.5 points to SP as a result and overall are -3.3 points behind going onto meeting three in just over a week's time.

Our third fixture here will be held on Wednesday 28th April so we do hope you will follow the action here throughout the season.