🏇 PONTEFRACT HORSE RACING SYSTEM - 2021 SEASON - MEETING #14 23rd SEPTEMBER

 

PONTEFRACT SEASON 2021.

Welcome to this our fourteenth meeting of the 2021 season taking place on Thursday 23rd September. 

1st race 1.45pm.
Going: Good to firm

The highlight of our second September meeting is the Dalby Screw Driver Handicap. In the early 19th century, ‘Screw Driver’ set the Pontefract pulses racing. He won at least two ‘Cup’ races, back then these consisted of four heats over two miles on the same day. The overall winner being the horse with the best aggregate score over the 8 miles! He is the earliest Pontefract course specialist on record. Today's race is due off at 14:55 and is now run over 1m 2f instead of the longer staying trip, plus they only have to race once today not four times. 

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 and at least secured a small profit on the last two meetings up till last week, sadly that was a complete blow out with loads of runners up and no wins. So sadly we saw our deficit climb again to -36.88 points onto this fourteenth meeting this afternoon.

Going / Weather: The forecast going is now currently reported as 'Good to firm' while the weather for Thursday afternoon is for a generally cloudy day with a light breeze but we are not expecting any showers the forecast maximum temperature around the 20C mark.

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

13:45 Northern Commercials Used Vehicles Ebf Maiden Stakes

6f  [Class 5  4 runners]

(1) - Kodebreaker.  [3rd 10/1]
(2) - Eldrickjones.  [WON @2/13f]

14:20 Irish Stallion Farms Ebf Fillies' Nursery Handicap

1m 6y  [Class 4  6 runners]

(1) - Turn Back Time.  [2nd @9/4f]

(2) - Fuente Ovejuna.  [3rd @5/2]

14:55 Simon Scrope Dalby Screw-driver Handicap

1m 2f 5y  [Class 3  4 runners]

(1) - Living Legend.  [WON @7/2]
(2) - Tiger Beetle.  [3rd @9/4]

15:30 Atlas Leisure Homes Ltd Handicap

6f  [Class 4  8 runners]

(1) - Lady Nectar.  [7th @15/2]

(2) - Oso Rapido.  [WON @3/1]

16:05 Racing Tv On Channel 426 Handicap

5f 3y  [Class 3  8 runners]

(1) - Ben Macdui.  [5th @7/1]

(2) - Rayong.  [2nd @11/2]

16:40 Charles Stewart Chartered Accountant Steve Evans Memorial Restricted Novice Stakes

1m 6y  [Class 5  12 runners]

(1) - Wakey Wakey.  [4th @5/6f]
(2) - Lituus.  [11th @12/1]

17:15 Malcolm Willstrop Memorial Apprentice Handicap

5f 3y  [Class 6  7 runners]

(1) - Jorvik Prince.  [7th @9/2]
(2) - Gorgeous General.  [2nd @6/1]

Staked -- 14 points.

Returns -- 9.653 points.
Having started the 2021 season afresh, we had a nice start early on but sadly begun to fall behind now as we begin to reach the latter part of this season on the track. After the opening thirteen meetings we did have a couple of winning fixtures but are sadly still -36.88 points behind coming into this fourteenth fixture, the results for today will be updated during Thursday afternoon as we try to claw back a little more again. Small loss again today, shame, now -41.227 points behind with only two more fixtures to save us. 

The penultimate fixture here for this season will be held on Monday 4th October so we do hope you will follow the action for these final meetings of 2021.