WHAT a difference a week makes. Seven days ago we were battling the unexpected forces of nature thrown at Newcastle Racecourse in the midst of the three day John Smith’s Northumberland Plate Festival.
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NOT many Gosforth Park Cups go by without Jim Goldie being involved, and the Glasgow trainer is looking for a change of luck to reclaim the prize he last lifted in 2001.
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NO prizes for guessing what the owner of The Osteopath and Osteopathic Remedy does for a living. Kevin Kirkup runs an osteopathic practice in Thirsk.
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ONE of Richard Fahey’s training ambitions is to saddle the winner of the John Smith’s Northumberland Plate and he went close to achieving it last year with Halla San.
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IT is now less than two weeks until our biggest racing event of the year at Newcastle Racecourse, the John Smith’s Northumberland Plate Festival, and the ‘buzz’ is really starting to pick up around the course.
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TOMORROW is Derby Day and the masses will descend on Epsom for the annual blue-riband event that hails the best three-year-old colt of its generation over 1m4f.
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TWO weeks ago I napped Aye Aye Digby for a Newbury sprint but soon realised that the selection was fighting a losing battle against a potential Group horse masquerading as a handicapper in the shape of Main Aim.
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WITH Tim Easterby’s Flat team running into top form, it could be the signal for Hamish McGonagall to lead his rivals a merry dance in the sportingbet.com Sprint at York today.
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ENTRIES for our feature race of the year at Newcastle Racecourse closed on Tuesday with an interesting array of horses that could possibly line up for this year’s £180,000, two-mile, John Smith’s Northumberland Plate Heritage Handicap.
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HUNT racing enthusiasts have a blank weekend in prospect ahead of next Sunday’s Border meetings at Hexham race course which concludes the Northern Area season.
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WHILE on a visit last summer to Robin Bastiman’s yard, before Borderlescott’s attempt at winning the Stewards’ Cup for a second time, he made the point that his stable star’s best trip could be five furlongs despite the fact he had won all but one of his races over six.
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EVEN with soft ground as our main going description for today, we have plenty of runners lined up for racing at Newcastle Racecourse – 94 to be precise.
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YESTERDAY’S Haydon fixture at Hexham Racecourse had to be abandoned after the fourth race due to a serious injury to veteran Scottish amateur, James Galbraith, in a first fence fall from his own horse, Risk Assesment, in the Restricted Race.
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HENRY Candy is keen to run Aye Aye Digby in the Wokingham Stakes and hopes that he can win again at Newbury today and go up the ratings to give him a chance of getting into the handicap sprint feature at Royal Ascot.
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WHILE racing has a lot more to offer to potential customers, it’s fair to say past efforts to market the product have fallen short of what is required to see the sport through this difficult period and beyond.
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IT was a huge blow to the northern racing community this week to hear of the sad death of Jonnie Fenwicke-Clennell on Saturday, a day when his big presence should have been looming large as clerk at Hexham racecourse.
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FOLLOWING heavy rain in Cumbria earlier in the week, the soft ground specialists will be in their element in today’s Cumberland fixture at Heathfield, near Aspatria. The seven-race card with 111 entries gets under way at 2pm and admission is only £8 per person.
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