GALWAY FESTIVAL 2015 [JULY 27th -- AUG 2nd] -- DAY ONE

DAY ONE

The Galway festival is week long feast of racing, across both codes and a good excuse to visit one of the great Irish venues. 

The opening day actually doesn't start till the evening with the first race of the meeting due off at 5:15pm. The feature race tonight being the Connacht Hotel Handicap. 

Our recent years have focused on the horses from trainer Dermot Weld and we will continue to track his progress this week though we might also offer one or two other selections in particular the feature races if no Weld runner is declared.

Going -- NH - Yielding Flat - Soft
Weather Forecast -- A high of 16C with a chance of a few showers later. Take a mac... 

DAY ONE SELECTIONS;

5:15 -- ZAYAFAN [2nd 11/8]

5:45 -- DEFINING YEAR [3rd 5/1]

6:15 -- TRUE SOLITAIRE [WON 6/4]

6:50 -- The feature race of the first evening, a 2m handicap on the flat will always attract the interest of the NH trainers. 

Tonight no exception and Willie Mullins will be supported with his pair of White Out / Wood Breizh [4th 12/1] while Jessica Harrington too has a good chance with her consistent dual purpose horse Modem [Won 5/1], but we are sticking with Dermot Weld here who has a great chance of yet another winner with SIERRA SUN. [5th 9/1]

7:20 -- TADAANY [2nd 13/8]

7:50 -- HARASAVA [WON 9/4]

8:20 -- No D Weld runners.

Day One figures -- Just the pair of winners on Day 1 and a few places but sadly a small losing day to kick off week. 

D Weld p/l for week       loss -0.25pts
Overall week p/l to date  loss -0.25pts 

Summer, Horse Racing, Galway, Irish Women, Guinness = Life IS Good.

Results will appear here on Monday evening along with 'Day Two' to be published shortly, we're also racing at 'Glorious' Goodwood too this week starting on Tuesday, so two top meetings to enjoy. 

PONTEFRACT HORSE RACING SYSTEM -- 2015 TURF SEASON -- PART TEN

PONTEFRACT SEASON 2015

[SUNDAY AFTERNOON 26th JULY]

10th Meeting of the season ...

An overdue profitable meeting last time out so we are now looking at a small loss of -2.25pts, and we will now look at taking the next step to securing a profit for the season as we move into the second half of the year. All results for this meeting will are returned to a level stake at SP, and will also show any forecast results too in the daily results but these do not count for the profit / loss figures. 

Our next meeting of the 2015 Season, the tenth so far, it's a seven race card on what I hope will be a nice sunny Sunday afternoon. It will get under-way at 2.20 with a 5f maiden for 2yo's. 

The forecast going is currently reported as 'GOOD TO FIRM (Good in places)' the weather for this week is for showers on and off during Fri / Sat night and this may continue into race-day with a high of 14C during the day.

The meeting has a couple of decent looking handicaps (one in memory of Graham Rock) and the main feature is the class 1 Summer Festival Pomfret Stakes over a mile at 4pm. 

Here are our selections for Friday Evening, remember it's a very simple selection process of stalls 1 and 2 in any race;

2:20 5f Maiden (2yo)

MAYFAIR LADY -- WON 13/8

COMEDY NIGHT -- N/R

2:50 1m 4f 8yds Handicap (3yo+)

EL BRAVE -- 5th 22/1

QIBTEE -- 3rd 13/2

3:25 1m 2f 6yds Graham Rock Memorial Handicap

CORNBOROUGH -- N/R
SOPHISTICATED HEIR -- N/R

4:00 1m 4yds Summer Festival Pomfret Stakes

MONDIALISTE -- WON 5/2

SHORT SQUEEZE -- 2nd 4/1

Forecast -- £12.22

4:35 6f Handicap

RIGHT TOUCH -- WON 5/1

VALLARTA -- 4th 15/2

5:10 1m 4yds Maiden

EMINENTT -- 4th 66/1

EJBAAR -- WON  5/2

5:40 5f Handicap

OLDJOESAID -- 5th 5/1
BOXING SHADOWS -- N/R

Another winning day and we've broken into overall profit too for the season so that's great news. Today +5.625pts so that gives us a figure of +3.375 to carry over to the next meeting. 

Have a good weekend, try and keep dry if you can.

PONTEFRACT HORSE RACING SYSTEM -- 2015 TURF SEASON -- PART NINE

PONTEFRACT SEASON 2015

[FRIDAY EVENING 17th JULY]

9th Meeting of the season ...

Following the last meeting we are now standing at a figure of -25.975pts, but we still believe and keeping the faith that with one decent return we can put this right so are no too downbeat given the start we made last year we know it's possible to turn this around. All results for this meeting will be returned to a level stake at SP, and will also show any forecast results too. 

So onwards to our next meeting of the 2015 Season, the ninth so far, it's a six race card on what I hope will be a nice sunny Friday evening. It will get under-way at 6.30 with a 6f maiden for 2yo's. 

The forecast going is currently reported as 'GOOD TO FIRM' the weather for this week is for showers on and off during Thursday night and this may continue into race-day with a high of 20C during the day but 14C come the evening.

The whole meeting is in support of the wonderful work of the Injured Jockeys Fund and the outstanding work of one man, former trainer Jack Berry, so give generously and get your red shirts out ready for action. 

Here are our selections for Friday Evening, remember it's a very simple selection process of stalls 1 and 2 in any race;

6:30 6f Maiden (2yo)

QUOTELINE DIRECT -- WON 22/1
LADY ARGENTUM -- 2nd 5/2

Forecast was £75.50


7:00 1m 4f 8yds Maiden (3yo)

TOLAH -- 3rd 5/1
LA HOOFAN -- 4th 33/1

7:30 5f Handicap

MUKAYNIS -- 2nd 11/8F

SILVANUS -- WON 8/1

Forecast was £12.85


8:05 1m 4yds Handicap

MARKET SHARE -- Non Runner
KIWI BAY -- 2nd 11/4

8:35 1m 2f 6yds Maiden Handicap

COMANCHE CHIEFTAIN -- 3rd 5/1

ENTITY -- WON 7/4F

9:05 6f Handicap

SWEET MISSI -- 2nd 10/3
TEETOTAL -- 3rd 4/1

YES That's the night we were waiting for!!

3 winners and 2 forecasts, the winners to SP give us a profit on the night of +23.75. Which has dramatically reduced our arrears down to a more manageable (but still disappointing) value -2.25 [points to carry over to the next meeting on Sunday week. 

Happy days have a great weekend.

See you next time...

Our next coverage from Pontefract will take place on Sunday 26th July.