Englands Dreaming of repeat
● Musselburgh feature target for husband and wife
Jonathan and Sam England team up again with recent course winner Wishful Dreaming in the feature race of Musselburgh’s final jumps card of the season today.
The husband and wife jockey/trainer combination struck twelve days ago as Wishful Dreaming ran out a comfortable scorer over two miles at the East Lothian venue. Now shouldering a 7lb penalty, the gelding faces five rivals in the £10,000 Scotmid 160th Jump Chase Limited Handicap over an extra half mile.
Jonathan England said: “He stays further and has been in great form since the penny started to drop. He’s a strong-travelling horse and should run well again.”
Among the opposition lining up against the Englands’ West Yorkshire raider is Elmono, who carries the colours of Gerry Mcgladery.
Twice a course winner over three miles this term, he is one of five runners on the card for the Edinburgh-based Irishman who is close to achieving his ambition of being crowned leading owner at his local track.
Dundee United director Jimmy Fyffe introduces wellnamed Jim Goldie newcomer Tannadice Park for her debut in the concluding Irish Thoroughbred Marketing Mares’ Intermediate Open National Hunt Flat Race.
The field also includes Colorado Gold, trained by Scotland’s newest trainer, second season Dumfriesshire-based Daragh Bourke, who has yet to saddle a winner.
Meanwhile, Bryony Frost is set to miss next month’s Grand National meeting at Aintree after confirming she broke her collarbone in a fall at Southwell.
Frost, pictured, who lit up the Cheltenham Festival with her victory in the Ryanair Chase on the Paul Nicholls-trained Frodon, saw a specialist on Wednesday, two days after her fall from Midnight Bliss.
The injury, which will be reassessed in two weeks, is one which typically needs a recovery period of between one month and two.
Frost said in a statement released via the Jockey Club: “Yesterday I went to see an extremely good specialist in Cardiff, where my x-ray results have shown that I’ve fractured my clavicle.
“I suffered a fracture previously, which healed well under pressure. My body’s response from that fracture makes me positive for when I go back for my assessment in a fortnight’s time, and a swift return.”
Aintree will surely be off the agenda this season for Frost, who has voiced her gratitude to those who have wished her well in recent days. “I’ve been taken aback by all the support I’ve received since Monday,” she added.
“It makes you aware of how many people are running with you when you hold out your hand and see who reaches out to help and pull you up.
“The racing world is an extremely caring one. Although we are all strangers, within it we become a family when we need each other, and that’s the beauty of it.”