Sporting Life - Racing | Result, Cheltenham 11-03-2009 Ballymore Novices' Hurdle

Wednesday March 11 2009

Cheltenham 14:05 - Result

Ballymore Novices' Hurdle

£120000 added, 4yo plus, 2m 5f, Class 1, £68412 penalty, 14 ran

Going: Good to Soft, Soft in places

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Winning Time: 5m 17.s

Pos.	Draw	Dist.	Horse	Wt	Jockey	Trainer	Age	SP
1			Mikael D'haguenet (FR)	11-7	R Walsh	W P Mullins	5	5/2 f
		mid-division, in touch from 4th, led 3 out, headed 2 out, regained lead when not fluent last, ran on well opened 11/4 touched 3/1 £12000-£4000 £9000-£3000 £6000-£2000 £11000-£4000 (x2) £5500-£2000 £3300-£1200 £2750-£1000 (x4) £2500-£1000
2		1¾	Karabak (FR)	11-7	A P McCoy	A King	6	4/1
		in touch, lost place on inside when hit 6th, pushed along, progress when not fluent 3 out, ridden and switched right after 2 out, ran on to take 2nd flat, not troubled winner opened 10/3 touched 4/1 £8000-£2000 (x2) £4000-£1000 £3500-£1000 £20000-£6000
3		3¾	Diamond Harry	11-7	T J Murphy	Nick Williams	6	4/1
		held up in rear, headway on outside approaching 3 out, challenging after flight, led, went left and hit 2 out, headed when mistake last, stayed on same pace flat opened 9/2 touched 9/2 £10000-£2000 (x3) £5000-£1000 (x3) £4500-£1000 Each Way
4		nk	China Rock (IRE)	11-7	N P Madden	M F Morris	6	25/1
		mid-division, headway on outside approaching 6th, challenging 2 out, soon ridden, outpaced before last, stayed on same pace opened 25/1 touched 25/1 £25000-£1000 Each Way
5		3¾	Knockara Beau (IRE)	11-7	Jan Faltejsek	G A Charlton	6	14/1
		held up towards rear, pushed along after 7th, headway approaching 3 out, every chance 2 out, 5th and beaten when hit last opened 16/1 touched 16/1 £16000-£1000 Each Way
6		10	The Nightingale (FR)	11-7	Christian Williams	P F Nicholls	6	16/1
		in touch, ridden after 3 out, beaten after 2 out, weakening when mistake last opened 12/1 touched 16/1
7		6	Realt Dubh (IRE)	11-7	P Carberry	N Meade	5	20/1
		prominent, ridden 3 out, soon beaten, weakened before next opened 22/1 touched 25/1 £10000-£500 Each Way
8		1½	Mad Max (IRE)	11-7	B J Geraghty	N J Henderson	7	6/1
		held up, went handy 4th, chased leader after 7th, not much room when hit 2 out, weakened soon after opened 6/1 touched 6/1 £13000-£2000 £6500-£1000
9		10	Ruthenoise (FR)	10-5	T Scudamore	D Pipe	4	100/1
		raced keenly, prominent, chased leader approaching 3rd, led 6th, headed 3 out, weakened before 2 out opened 80/1 touched 100/1
10		23	Junior	11-7	R Thornton	A King	6	16/1
		held up towards rear, pushed along 6th, losing touch next, tailed off opened 33/1 touched 33/1 £25000-£1000
11		dist	Dorset Square (IRE)	11-7	A J Mcnamara	J J Murphy	5	200/1
		in rear, behind 6th, tailed off opened 200/1 touched 200/1
12		7	Quwetwo	11-7	D F O'Regan	J Howard Johnson	6	20/1
		led, hit 3rd, soon headed, led after next, headed when hit 6th, weakened approaching 3 out, well behind when blundered 2 out, tailed off opened 20/1 touched 20/1
13		29	Quartetto (GER)	11-7	A P Thornton	M Torrens	5	100/1
		held up in rear, not fluent 4th, mistake 5th, struggling when mistake 7th, tailed off opened 100/1 touched 100/1
PU			Richard The Third	11-7	S E Durack	John A Harris	5	250/1
		raced keenly, led after 1st, headed after next, dropped to rear before 5th, blundered 7th, tailed off when pulled up before 3 out opened 250/1 touched 250/1

Tote Win: Ł3.60 Tote Place: Ł1.70,Ł2.20,Ł1.90
Straight Forecast: Ł11.51 Exacta: Ł10.80 Trifecta: Ł25.90
Swingers:1&2:Ł2.50, 2&3:Ł3.10, 1&3:Ł2.80

Jackpot: £72,548.90 Pool:£102,181.65 1.00 winning tickets Placepot: £753.20 Pool:£882,016.69 854.79 winning tickets Quadpot: £33.40 Pool:£42,680.19 943.94 winning tickets

Analysis: It promised to be a great race and it threw up a trio of future stars led home by Irish raider MIKAEL D'HAGUENET. Ruby Walsh always had the favourite in a great position and when long-time leader Quwetwo capitulated going down the hill, he swept to the front and galloped all the way to the line. Karabak, scrubbed along when the steady pace quickened into the straight, stayed on gamely for second and unbeaten Diamond Harry was also just caught for toe between the last two but took a fine third.