Lorcan ends season with big-race glory
OUR next fixture at Ffos Las is on Monday, May 16. We have seven races from 1.10pm and tickets are just £12 in advance and £17 on the day.
The restaurant has a great value package for £49 which includes admission and a two-course carvery lunch. To book please go to the website.
We are also just over one month until the Kaiser Chiefs play live after racing on Thursday, June 2. It’s the first day of the Queen’s Jubilee Bank Holiday weekend. Tickets are still available priced at £37.50. The first race is at 5.15pm. The band are on stage around 8.45pm.
Looking back at the jumps season that ended on Saturday, the leading Welsh jockey was Sean Bowen with 95 winners. He finished fifth in the jockeys’ table. James Bowen rode 74 winners to finish 10th and Adam Wedge bagged 70 to end in 13th spot. Lorcan Williams also registered his personal best number of winners with 23.
Evan Williams was the leading Welsh trainer, winning 53 races and earning £888,252 to finish 16th in the national table. Christian Williams was 24th, with 34 wins and £659,025. Sam Thomas’s 20 winners helped him earn £486,226, and Peter Bowen’s 35 yielded £437,288.
Lorcan Williams was on the scoresheet at Sandown’s jumps finale meeting on Saturday, riding Mcfabulous to victory in the Grade 2 Select Hurdle. Trainer Paul Nicholls already has a novice chase at Chepstow’s Unibet Jump Season Opener in October in mind for his fencing debut.
James Davies rode Up The Straight to win the Josh Gifford Chase for Richard Rowe, a very appropriate result. Rowe was Gifford’s stable jockey for many years and James’s father Hywel also rode winners for the much-loved Findon maestro, who passed away a decade ago.
Between the Sandown races David Probert was seen by ITV viewers winning on Happy Power at Leicester. It was a big race in terms of prize money – £40,000 – but only three ran.
At Bath on Sunday Probert had – according to the form book – an easy task in the 1m 4f maiden on the 1-3 favourite Little Hustle, but the horse needed every yard of the trip to get its nose in front. Probert is still the leading flat jockey this year in terms of winners, with 61 successes to his name.
Grace Harris’s Symbol Of Hope rewarded his backers with a victory in the opening sprint. The horse made all the running to score by two and a half lengths. It was the stable’s first Flat winner of the year.