Snow joke for British raiders

THE runny noses may be confined to the glitzy and glamourous racegoers rather than the horses when St Moritz holds another of its spectacular ‘white turf’ meetings tomorrow.

Temperatures were due to fall to -12 last night with some light snow predicted for race day.

Adrift

Always popular with British owners, the programme saw a success for the raiders at the first of three February meetings at the Swiss track when the Paul Webber-trained New Agenda toboganned to a neck victory last Sunday in a £15,000 race.

Some 7,500 punters were in the crowd.

With New Agenda missing tomorrow’s potential follow-up, the way looks left clear for Berrahri, from the Kent yard of John Best, who is bidding to repeat his victory of 12 months ago.

Berrahri was 10 lengths adrift of New Agenda last time, a defeat which trainer Best blamed on the unusually deep snow on top of the frozen lake.

German jockey Dennis Schiergen, who rode New Agenda to success six days ago, switches to Berrahri this time.

A group of jump jockeys including Sam TwistonDavies, Kielan Woods, and Aidan Coleman are heading for the snow – at Chamonix in France – for a few days’ skiing ahead of the hoped-for return of racing next Wednesday.

Daryl Jacob, Gavin Sheehan and David Crosse prefer the fairways of Portugal for their enforced sporting break.