Friday 30 November 2012

CH4 SATURDAY DECEMBER 1st THE MORNING LINE 2012. JOIN UP 7.55am to 8.55am EVERY SATURDAY WITH NEWBURY HENNESSY GOLD CUP DAY THREE AND NEWCASTLE TODAY



CH4 MORNING LINE SATURDAY DECEMBER 1st  2012
7.55am to 8.55am every Saturday
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EQUUS ZONE

PREVIEW TODAY'S CARDS
http://www.racingpost.com/horses2/cards/home.sd




3.1o FEATURE RACE NEWBURY 
HENNESSY GOLD CUP RUNNERS AND RIDERS
3:10Hennessy Gold Cup Chase (Handicap) Grade 3 Cl1 3m2f110y CH4
http://www.racingpost.com/horses2/cards/card.sd?race_id=565674&r_date=2012-12-01#raceTabs=sc_




RACING POST JOIN UP AND JOIN IN  SOME OF THIS WEEKS NEWS
WEEK MONDAY MOVEMBER 19th TO SUNDAY DECEMBER 2nd 2012  

 http://turfcall2-racingpost.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/saturday-december-1st-join-up-racing.html 
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YOUR UNBEATABLE HENNESSY GUIDE heads our top

racingpost.com/ipas

WORTH A WAGER? YES, YES, YES AND HOW 4-1f
 
 

"Pricewise heads our top tipping team as favourite  BOBS WORTH  bids to deliver in the big race and an all-time great returns BIG BUCK'S is back. YES, YES, YES AND HOW
 


3.10 NEWBURY HENNESSY HANDICAP FIELD 2012 
 WITH AT A GUESS 20 BIG CHASE FENCES TO BE TACKLED

This race is going to take some winning, all depends on how it pans out to be in the running, make no mistake about that. There are 19 runners taking part, on going stated to be Good to Soft, with the overnight covers on last night.
Top weight TIDAL BAY 11.11-12 RUBY WALSH
Bottom weight ALFIE SPINNER 7 10-0 MARK QUINLAN(3)



Today's great reads ....
"DAVID PIPE  The inside track on his runners today page 14.
"ALASTAIR DOWN On a race that never disappoints.page 15
"DAVID ASHFORTH Hennessy heroes page 21


EQUUS ZONE 


All the work at home that goes into preparing these racehorses
for competition on the racetracks around the world, a massive work of art
that few ever come to realise or understand.








C4 MORNING LINE TEAM (AM)


GUEST STAR

 Charlie Longsdon who challenges for the Hennessy with
FRISCO DEPOT  8 10-1 partner Mr SAM WALEY-COHEN (5)
Top RP rating 177 here, along with MAGNANIMITY trained by Richard Hughes (Champion Flat Race Jockey 2012) Dad  D T Hughes over from Ireland and DIAMOND HARRY.


Charlie himself has grown a Movember Moustache and whilst he was attempting
to take the C4 Guest Test,  Rosie was shaving it off.

http://charlielongsdonracing.com/ 

http://www.foxtrotracing.com/trainers/charlie-longsdon


Nick (Host) (Lord Snooty) Luck
 
Tanya (Punters Champion) Stevenson 
 
John (Greatest Jockey) (Bloodhorse Literate) Francome 
Greatest Jockey hasn't got his Christmas jumper on yet.


Derek (Host Presenter) ( Bloodhorse Literate)  Thompson
Tommo brings us news that Racing is on at Newcastle this afternoon
C4 bring us 2.20. 3.25

Tommo introduces us to DENIS O'REGAN who partners COUNTRYWIDE FLAME this afternoon to challenge for the Fighting Fifth Hurdle 2.20
2.20 Feature Race Fighting Fifth Hurdle (Grade 1) (Class 1) Winner £58,520.80

 
 John (Mac) (Punters Champion) McCririck
Mac has his winter hat on and what a Super Saturday Racing Hat it is, fantastic x



Jim (Jimbo) (Form Essentials) McGrath.
Jimbo  three little words of caution
"a bookies delight"
be careful not to become one
.
Ch4 Team Jimbo takes a much closer look at today's Feature Race
3.10 Newbury Hennessy Gold Cup Chase
  "Race Essentials".






RP SUPER SATURDAY DAVID ASHFORTH (Page 21)

MUSINGS FROM A RETIRED RACING ENTHUSIAST

"Hennessy offers  heroes of all shapes and sizes

"I'M THINKING of wearing stockings. Another pair came flying out of the top-flat window on Thursday  and it seems a shame to waste them. I don't think anyone would notice. After all, in the coffee shop Emily has been serving lattes wearing a pair of antlers.
 
"Mercifully, Christmas comes but once a year and it's just the same with the Hennessy Gold Cup, although the Hennessy tends  to cost more. I don't think I've ever backed the winner, until this year (see bellow) If you're thinking of going to Newbury go early -  it gives you more time to be in the traffic jams.
 
"It's a race with a tremendous, evocative history. Like Ingemar Erlandsson, the Swedish football international, the  Hennessy was born on November 16, 1957. MANDARIN won the first running of the race, at Cheltenham, and after it moved to Newbury he won it again. In the meantime John Lawrence,  later Lord Oaksey,  had won it on TAXIDERMIST, who stuffed all the others (I know, I just couldn't stop myself).
 
"Lord Oaksey had a strong, emotional  connection with the race. You probably know about CARRUTHERS, last year's winner, bred by Lord Oaksey and trained by his son-in-law Mark Bradstock, but you may not know about GHOFAR, who won the Hennessy in 1989.



"GHOFAR was half-owned by Sir Hugh Dundas, who was Lord Oaksey brother in law  and one of the most remarkable men I have ever met. You need strong nerves to keep coming back for more after yet another bone-breaking fall but you need even stronger ones when you are only 19, already flying a Spitfire and, every time you take off, German Messerschmitts are waiting to kill you. For Battle of Britain pilots, Dundas told me, it wasn't a matter of not being frightened - everyone experienced  fear - it was a question of how to face it down. Shortly after his 20th  birthday Dundas's plane was shot down. He was lucky - he baled out and survived. Three months later his elder brother John, also a pilot  was killed.


"In May 1941 Dundas was shot down and crash landed in Kent. During one fortnight that summer Dundas' s squadron lost more than half its pilots. At the end of the year, aged 21, Dundas became squadron leader. A year later his plane was shot down again and crash-landed in Norfolk. Dundas survived and was promoted to acting wing commander, aged 22. In 1944, his plane damaged by flak, Dundas made another forced landing and, aged 24, became the youngest ever group captain. He led from the front, brave beyond belief.

 

"If his wife, Lord Oaksey's sister, hadn't prodded Dundas into telling his remarkable tale. I doubt if I would have heard it.  Dundas gave me a copy of  Flying Start, his wartime story, published the year before GHOFAR victory. It is well worth reading.

 

"There had been heroics of a different kind in 1964 and 1965 when ARKLE not only won the Hennessy, but won it carrying 12st 7lb. He only failed to repeat the feat in 1966 because he couldn't quite give 35lb to STALBRIDGE COLONIST who, a few months later, after ARKLE had retired, was narrowly beaten in the Cheltenham Gold Cup. TIDAL BAY fans might like to ponder the fact that the winner RONDETTO was the last 11-year-old Hennessy winner.

 

"Older horses don't have a great record in the race, unlike jockey PAUL NICHOLLS. It is quite difficult to look at the names of the 1986 and 1987 winners BROADHEATH and PLAYSCHOOL without noticing, next to NICHOLLS' name, 10st 5lb and 10st 8lb. Oh well I know the feeling.

 
"And so it goes on, because the Hennessy is a race that brings back memories. On to        NICHOLLS again, as a trainer of three Hennessy winners, including DENMANS stirring triumphs in 2007 and 2009."


"Today is also the day after the end of Movember and it's heartening that so many racing people have taken part to raise awareness of men's cancers and  funds for Prostate Cancer UK. The Racing Post's own team , with trainers Charlie Longsdon and Roger Curtis to the fore,  stand 197th  in the list of  31,060 UK teams, having raised approaching £4,000.
 
"There 's still time to donate via movember.com and everyone's welcome to The Malt Shovel in Upper Lambourn from 6pm today for a Movember celebration. Alice will be there to shave off moustaches  and I'll be signing copies of my book Racing Crazy to raise some money. Be there or be square."

MOVEMBER CELEBRATION
 
 
 ALICE  (In Wonderland ) (Saucy Minx ) PLUNKET WILL BE THERE
TO SHAVE OFF MOUSTACHES
Put your stockings on and get down to the Malt Shovel in Upper Lambourn from 6pm this evening.
http://www.themaltshovel.com/
 


C4 AFTERNOON TEAM (PM)
Who will be the guest superstars this afternoon?

John
(Greatest Jockey) (Bloodhorse Literate) Francome.

John (Mac) (Punters Champion) McCririck
Jim (Jimbo) (Form Essentials) McGrath.
Tanya (Punters Champion) Stevenson
Derek (Host Presenter) ( Bloodhorse Literate) Thompson
Simon (Calling the Horses) Holt.


C4 bring us 6 races Live fromNewbury and Newcastle today
http://www.horseracingtips-uk.co.uk/charity-bets.htm 




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THE WORLD OF HORSERACING

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PUNTERS ZONE

racing PLUS - TODAY
The weekend cards in time order

Fasten those seat belts


Get that engine running


Equus Zone

"Can we leave it to Mr Saturday?

"Paul Nicholls has been virtually unstoppable over the past few weeks, and today he's aiming two huge stars at Newbury's big Hennessy card -top-weight TIDAL BAY in the big race itself and the mighty BIG BUCK'S."
 
James Willoughby pages 2-3.  vulnerable today - back page.
Valueplus page 7.
Robert Cooper page 8.  C4 Nick Luck page 10.

pointing PLUS. Great Point-to-Point pullout free inside





 Today's Horse Racing Cards

RACES SHOWN ON TERRESTRIAL TV


2:00 NEW Sportingbet Long Distance Hurdle Grade 2 Cl1 3m110y CH4 Card Betting
2:20 NEC StanJames.com Fighting Fifth Hurdle Grade 1 Cl1 2m CH4 Card Betting
2:35 NEW Sportingbet Handicap Hurdle Cl2 2m3f CH4 Card Betting
3:10 NEW Hennessy Gold Cup Chase (Handicap) Grade 3 Cl1 3m2f110y CH4 Card Betting
3:25 NEC At The Races Rehearsal Chase Handicap (Listed Race) Cl1 3m CH4 Card Betting
3:40 NEW Sportingbet Handicap Chase (for the Jim Joel Memorial Trophy) Cl2 2m1f CH4 Card Betting

Show all racecards for this meeting on one page




NEWBURY RUK



GOING: SOFT (Good to soft in places on Chase course; GoingStick: Hurdle 4.6, Chase 5.4) (As a precaution we will cover all take-offs and landings). (Sunny intervals)

12:15 Sportingbet Amateur Riders´ Handicap Chase Cl3 3m2f110y Card Betting
12:50 Thoroughbred Breeders´ Association Mares´ Novices´ Hurdle (Listed Race) Cl1 2m110y Card Betting
1:25 Frootfal.co.uk Sure Bet For Cashback Novices´ Handicap Chase (for the Fulke Walwyn Trophy) Cl3 2m6f110y Card Betting
2:00 Sportingbet Long Distance Hurdle Grade 2 Cl1 3m110y CH4 Card Betting
2:35 Sportingbet Handicap Hurdle Cl2 2m3f CH4 Card Betting
3:10 Hennessy Gold Cup Chase (Handicap) Grade 3 Cl1 3m2f110y CH4 Card Betting
3:40 Sportingbet Handicap Chase (for the Jim Joel Memorial Trophy) Cl2 2m1f CH4 Card Betting

 
 
 

NEWCASTLE ATR

GOING: SOFT (Heavy in places (frozen in odd places); GoingStick 5.9) INSPECTION 8am Saturday (Bends moved to provide as much fresh ground as possible; 3m bend and bend into straight divided to ensure best ground possible; all hurdle sites have been moved). (Sunny)
12:05 Cooper´s Marquees Novices´ Limited Handicap Chase Cl3 3m Card Betting
12:35 SIS Live Handicap Chase Cl5 3m Card Betting
1:10 SLM "The French Furze" Novices´ Hurdle Cl2 2m6f Card Betting
1:45 Connor Liam Sadler Handicap Chase Cl4 2m4f Card Betting
2:20 StanJames.com Fighting Fifth Hurdle Grade 1 Cl1 2m CH4 Card Betting
2:50 E B F "National Hunt" Maiden Hurdle (Qualifier) Cl5 2m Card Betting
3:25 At The Races Rehearsal Chase Handicap (Listed Race) Cl1 3m CH4 Card Betting
 




 
 
 
 
 



Sunday 25 November 2012

SACRED SUNDAY NOVEMBER 25th 2012. EQUUS ZONE RESULTS C4 LIVE FROM ASCOT AND HAYDOCK PARK YESTERDAY - TEAM NICHOLLS SCORES TO TAKE THE BETFAIR CHASE AT HAYDOCK PARK WITH SILVINIACO CONTI - RUBY WALSH - GEMMA GROVES - AT 7-4 FROM TEAM HENDERSON LONG RUN -SAM WALEY-COHEN AT 11-8f.(Punters Zone) BY 2+LENGTHS.




 

CH4 MORNING LINE SATURDAY NOVEMBER 24th 2012
7.55am to 8.55am every Saturday
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REVIEW YESTERDAY'S EQUUS ZONE RESULTS
REVIEW YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
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REVIEW  YESTERDAY'S PUNTERS ZONE RESULTS
 
 
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http://www.racingpost.com/horses2/cards/home.sd


RACING POST NEWS
http://turfcall2-racingpost.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/sacred-sunday-november-25th-racing-post.html






POUNCE POWER

HOW THE TWO MIGHTY JUMPING TEAMS STAND AFTER YESTERDAY IN THE JUMPS TRAINERS' CHAMPIONSHIP 2012 - 2013

PRIZE-MONEY
Team Nicholls  Ditcheat Prize-money £789, 245 Title odds 6-4
Winner SILVINIACO CONTI


Team Henderson Lambourn Prize-money £440,228 Title odds 8-13
Winner OSCAR WHISKY 






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PUNTERS ZONE

racing PLUS - TODAY
The weekend cards in time order
 
 
 
EQUUS ZONE EXTRA
Waley-Cohen  film shown after the C4 Morning Line yesterday,
 this is what the Equus Zone is all about.
 
 A 30- MINUTE film on LONG RUN'S jockey, Sam Waley-Cohen will be shown on Channel 4 at 9am Saturday November 24th.

"The black and white film - A Racing Portrait: For the Love- follows Waley-Cohen, the first amateur rider  for 30 yrears to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup, during the 2011-2012 season.

"Directed by Just So films, it includes  comments from Brough Scott and Peter O'Sullevan on the successes of the Waley-Cohen family.

"The film will be available  on 4 on Demand up to and throughout the 2013 Cheltenham Festival (March 12-15)  
 
 
The expertise, the art, to be able to ride like this
goes unrecognised by 95 percent of people interested in horseracing
world wide
 
The highly skilled art that is Bloodhorse Literacy
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