The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
Europe and America prepare to clash in biennial Ryder Cup.
Deadly duo combine to record a 95-1 five timer at Perth’s Glorious Finale
Gordon Elliott sealed the 2018 leading trainers’ title at Perth yesterday when teaming up with Richard Johnson for a 95-1 five-timer with Dinons, Creadan Grae, Global Jackpot, Cubamania and Jaunty Thor.
The pair also enjoyed five-timers at Perth on August 17 and Johnson said: “It took me 25 years to ride my first fivetimer so I never thought I’d have another one about a month later! Gordon is a lovely man to ride for as his horses are so fit and he puts them in the right races.”
Tim O’Driscoll’s Dinons, sent off at 1-7, earned himself a trip to Cheltenham after extending his winning sequence to four when making all to score by 23 lengths in the threemile novices’ hurdle.
Creadan Grae, runner-up over hurdles at Perth earlier in the month, returned to fences with a vengeance when slamming Fiddlers Bow by threeand-three-quarter lengths in the Lord Mansfield Memorial Handicap Chase.
Global Jackpot completed a hat-trick before Cubamania and Jaunty Thor completed Elliott and Johnson’s domination.
YOURTIMEISNOW can take the next step up the ladder and bag her hattrick in the process in the Shadwell Rockfel Stakes at Newmarket today.
Roger Varian’s charge took a couple of runs to really get rolling, but following her first success at Newbury in August, she certainly did not look back when making a successful move into Group Three company at Salisbury.
She made all over six furlongs that day and kept finding plenty for pressure, holding Lady Aria by a half-length to give the impression a move up in trip would be well within her compass.
The aforementioned LADY ARIA will likely be a short price for the McCaffrey Mortgages “The Insurance Specialists” British EBF Maiden Fillies’ Stakes at Haydock but is very hard to oppose.
SELECTIONS: HAYDOCK: 1.35 Motahassen, 2.05 Reactive, 2.40 Lady Aria, 3.15 Amplify, 3.50 She Can Boogie, 4.25 Canford Heights, 4.55 Fondest, 5.25 Overtrumped.
NEWMARKET: 1.50 Agrotera, 2.25 Sun Maiden, 3.00 YOURTIMEISNOW (NAP), 3.35 Regal Reality, 4.10 Skardu, 4.45 Raheen House, 5.15 Capton.
DOUBLE: Yourtimeisnow and Lady Aria.