🏇 PONTEFRACT HORSE RACING SYSTEM - 2021 SEASON FINALE - MEETING #16 18th OCTOBER

PONTEFRACT SEASON 2021.

Welcome to this our final meeting of the 2021 season taking place on Monday 18th October. 

1st race 1.15pm.
Going: Soft, Good to soft in places.

This will be our FINAL meeting of the year as the turf flat season begins to draw to a close. The last day of the 2021 season sees our final Listed Race where the 2yos take to the stage in the EBF Silver Tankard Stakes – Pythagoras won the 2020 renewal ‘behind closed doors’ for Richard Fahey and Paul Hanagan. There is also another stayers contest 'The Phil Bull Trophy' over 2m 2f and due off around 2:55pm, It’s always a popular and well attended race meeting also a chance to do some very early Christmas shopping when the Injured Jockeys Fund brings their stall.

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 -49.027 points onto this final meeting this afternoon.

Going / Weather: 
The forecast going is now currently reported as 'Soft, Good to soft in places' while the weather for Monday afternoon is for a generally cloudy day with some showers expected and a breeze the maximum temperature around the 16C mark.

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

13:15  Northern Commercials Iveco And Fiat Restricted Novice Stakes (2yo)
6f  [Class 5  12 runners]
(1) - Finbar's Lad.  [11th @16/1]
(2) - Fantasy Navigator.  [6th @150/1]

13:45  Harriet Bethell's IJF Pontefract Course Walk Nursery (2yo)
1m 6y  [Class 6  16 runners]
(1) - Greatness Awaits.  [2nd @5/1]
(2) - Grifter.  [9th @4/1]

14:20  British Stallion Studs EBF Silver Tankard Stakes (Listed) (2yo)
1m 6y  [Class 1  12 runners]
(1) - Mahagoni.  [4th @12/1]
(2) - Mr Professor.  [WON @16/1]

14:55  Phil Bull Trophy Conditions Stakes
2m 2f 2y  [Class 2  5 runners]
(1) - Stag Horn.  [WON @4/7f]
(2) - Warranty.  [3rd @50/1]

15:30  Allen Hinchcliffe Memorial Handicap
1m 2f 5y  [Class 4  11 runners]
(1) - Kayfast Warrior.  [4th @9/1]
(2) - Thunderclap.  [WON @11/4]

16:05  Steve Lumb Quest For The Cheapest Pint Handicap (Div One)
6f  [Class 5  12 runners]
(1) - Patsy Fagan.  [WON @12/1]
(2) - Stallone.  [2nd @2/1f]

16:40  Steve Lumb Quest For The Cheapest Pint Handicap (Div Two)
6f  [Class 5  11 runners]
(1) - Mashaan.  [8th @14/1]
(2) - Impeller.  [7th @8/1]

17:15  Racing TV Club Day Handicap
5f 3y  [Class 4  14 runners]
(1) - Black Friday.  [WON @11/2]
(2) - Ehrmann.  [11th @5/1]

Staked - 16 points.
Returns - 41.82 points.

This has been a frustrating 2021 season here, we had a nice start early on but sadly begun to fall behind and not recovered enough. After the opening fifteen meetings we are sadly still -49.027 points behind coming into this final fixture, the results for today will be updated during Monday afternoon as we try to claw back a little more again in the season finale. Nice winner in the third race, then followed up with a few more winners this afternoon. Meant we will at least end the season on a winning meeting, small victories and all that, looks likely we will still be down for the year, but after sixteen meetings it's looking a lot better than it was.
Profit on the day of +25.82 points.
Therefore we ended the season down, but not disheartened, overall loss was reduced to -23.207 points to a level point stake at SP. 

That is all for this season here I hope you have been well through 2021 and we'll return in April for the start of the 2022 season.