🏇 PONTEFRACT HORSE RACING SYSTEM - 2021 SEASON - MEETING #12 3rd SEPTEMBER

PONTEFRACT SEASON 2021.

Welcome to this our twelfth meeting of the 2021 season taking place on Friday 3rd September. 

1st race 5.00pm.
Going: Good to firm [Good in places]

Friday night is Queen Night and a beer festival ! When you add in a nice card of horseracing too what's not to love this Friday, and a great way to kick off your weekend. If you’re after a fantastic night out with great racing, a fabulous atmosphere, award-winning beers and lagers and one of the UK’s best Queen bands, then this is the night for you. Magic Queen re-enacts the glorious days of legendary rock band Queen, including the glam of the ’70s and the magic of the ’80s, proving themselves to be one the most dynamic and exciting Queen Tribute Bands in Europe.Magic Queen’s high-energy shows showcase the main greatest hits and assure the audience the maximum entertainment with dancing from the very first second of the show! Concentrating on sounding like the original artists, Magic Queen delivers a blast of entertainment in every single show, interacting with the audience to make them live an unforgettable experience.The band will be playing the greatest Queen hits in their brilliant live set straight after the last race. We also have Pennine Brewery, Revolutions Brewing Co, Ossett Brewery and Bier Huis joining us for our annual Beer Festival. There are six fantastic races to keep you entertained throughout the evening too! It’s always a hugely popular evening

The 'feature' event on the card is the 6pm Volkswagen Van Centre Leeds Optional Claiming Handicap over a mile trip. I'm waiting to see if "Give It Some Teddy" stands his ground once the declarations are finalised later in the week in this one (sadly he doesn't), while in the 5f finale @19:30 we would like to see "Ventura Express" who has already won twice at Ponte earlier in 2021, and pleased to see that he is in the line up.  

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. After a good opening we have seen a few winners but despite this overall after the latest meeting we still have to carry over a deficit of -30.63 points onto this twelfth meeting this evening.

Going / Weather: The forecast going is now currently reported as 'Good to firm - Good in places' while the weather for Friday evening is for a generally cloudy day but not expecting any showers and the forecast maximum temperature around the 16C mark.

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

17:00  Northern Commercials Iveco 's' Way Ebf Restricted Novice Stakes

6f  [Class 4  12 runners]

(1) - Clarets Glory.  [WON @10/1]
(2) - Fiftyshadesaresdev.  [2nd @14/1]    f/c £145.90

17:30  Rod Wooler 'mucker' Memorial Nursery Handicap

6f  [Class 4  6 runners]

(1) - Chelsea Annie.  [5th @10/3]

(2) - Stripzee.   [6th @11/1]

18:00   Volkswagen Van Centre Leeds Optional Claiming Handicap

1m 6y  [Class 2  10 runners]

(1) - Enigmatic.   [WON @3/1]
(2) - Streak Lightning.   [10th @14/1]

18:30  Happy Belated 50th Birthday Andrew Askin Maiden Handicap

1m 2f 5y  [Class 5  6 runners]

(1) - Broughtons Mission.   [4th @85/40f]

(2) - Bryanwood.   [2nd @13/2]

19:00  Fbs Chartered Accountants Handicap

6f  [Class 5  12 runners]

(1) - Merry Secret.   [12th @12/1]

(2) - Singe Anglais.   [3rd @4/1]

19:30  Engagement Of Adrian And Julia Handicap

5f 3y  [Class 3  7 runners]

(1) - King of Stars.   [WON @7/4f]

(2) - Ginger Jam.   [4th @15/2]

Staked -- 12 points.

Returns -- 17.75 points.
Having started the 2021 season afresh, we had a nice start early on but sadly begun to fall behind now as we passed half way of this full season on the track. After the opening eleven meetings we are sadly -30.63 points behind coming into this twelfth fixture, the results for today will be updated during Friday evening. A couple of early winners secures a profit for tonight's meeting and we'll hopefully continue as the night progresses, well we only got one more winner in the last, but it's a profit of +5.75 on the night to SP and reduces our season loss to -24.88 points.

The thirteenth fixture here will be held on Thursday 16th September so we do hope you will follow the action throughout the season.