Bowen keeps up presssure on champion
SWANSEA Bay Business Club holds its flagship event for the first time at Ffos Las tomorrow (Thursday, June 16).
The West Wales business community will be heading to the course for the Swansea Bay Business Club Race night, with the pre-race lunch kindly sponsored by Gavin Griffiths Group of Companies.
Hosted by Swansea icon Kevin Johns, the sold-out lunch will take place before racing in Bridles Restaurant in aid of the club’s nominated charity, the Army Benevolent Fund.
We are delighted with sponsorship support from AB Glass, JCP Solicitors, Gavin Griffiths Group of Companies, Sytner BMW Swansea, Peter Lynn and Associates, Welsh Cottage Cakes, and Fly 2 Wales.
The first race is off at 5.25pm. Advance tickets are £17 and it’s £22 on the day.
Sean Bowen kept up the pressure on reigning champion Brian Hughes at the top of the jump jockeys’ table by riding a double at Worcester on Saturday. He began on Rebecca Curtis’s The Boola Boss in a competitive 14-runner novice chase.
The horse’s runs over two and a half miles had been satisfactory, but a step up in trip was expected to produce improvement. Bowen sat tight when the horse jumped the last untidily, but in a driving finish he gained the upper hand.
An hour later he piloted his father’s Lord Bryan to a three-length victory over the Christian Williams-trained Jony Max. Coincidentally, he beat the same horse by almost exactly the same margin in his previous outing.
Lord Bryan is owned by Jane and Gwyn Brace, and was winning his third race in a row. After the race Bowen complimented the horse’s jumping. Indeed, the 11-yearold has never fallen in 50 starts.
David Probert has had only one winner so far this month, but every top jockey has troughs as well as peaks. Before he came to ride in the UK, Steve Cauthen once went 117 rides without a win.
Probert will hope to put an end to his quiet run at Royal Ascot this week where he has several chances.
David Evans has his two-year-old Democracy Dilemma entered in a couple of Royal Ascot races. He won a Chester maiden in good style before running too freely next time at Sandown.
Evans’s sprinter Rohaan lost his form after winning the Wokingham at last year’s big meeting. He could reappear in either in the Wokingham again or, ambitiously, the Group 1 Platinum Jubilee.