Sporting Life - Racing | Result, Cheltenham 12-03-2009 Freddie Williams Festival Plate

Thursday March 12 2009

Cheltenham 16:00 - Result

Freddie Williams Festival Plate

£90000 added, 5yo plus, 2m 5f, Class 1, £51309 penalty, 23 ran

Going: Good to Soft

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Winning Time: 5m 17.7s

Pos.	Draw	Dist.	Horse	Wt	Jockey	Trainer	Age	SP
1			Something Wells (FR)	10-12	Mr W Biddick (5)	Miss V Williams	8	33/1
		mid-division, headway 10th, chased clear leader after 12th, ridden after 3 out, led last, edged left, all out opened 28/1 touched 33/1
2		¾	Ping Pong Sivola (FR)	10-0	L Treadwell	Miss V Williams	6	13/2 f
		tracked leaders, led 11th, clear 13th, ridden approaching 2 out, headed last, rallied gamely, held near finish opened 8/1 touched 8/1 £5000-£550 Each Way £16000-£2000 £8000-£1000 Each Way £28000-£4000 Each Way £5600-£800
3		18	Notable D'Estruval (FR)	10-7	D N Russell	A L T Moore	8	8/1
		held up towards rear, hampered 4th, headway under pressure 3 out, soon went 3rd but no chance with leading pair, blundered 2 out, weakened opened 9/1 touched 9/1 £9000-£1000 Each Way £7000-£770 £40000-£5000 £10000-£1200 £8000-£1000 Each Way £8000-£1000 (x4) £4000-£500 Each Way £10000-£1300 Each Way £14000-£2000 Each Way £5000-£700 Each Way £5000-£700 £3500-£500
4		2¾	Three Mirrors	11-1	G Lee	Ferdy Murphy	9	9/1
		held up towards rear, hampered when under pressure 4 out, stayed on from next, went 4th approaching last, never any threat opened 8/1 touched 9/1 £9000-£1000 (x2) £16000-£2000 Each Way
5		8	Cossack Dancer (IRE)	10-0	Matthew Batchelor	M Bradstock	11	100/1
		led 3rd until 7th, led 8th until 11th, weakened 3 out opened 100/1 touched 100/1
6		1	Finger Onthe Pulse (IRE)	11-9	B J Geraghty	T J Taaffe	8	10/1
		mid-division, no impression, ridden when left in better position 4 out, weakened after 3 out opened 9/1 touched 10/1 £30000-£3000 £10000-£1000 Each Way £5000-£500
7		1¼	Or Bleu (FR)	10-11	T J O'Brien	P J Hobbs	7	16/1
		mid-division, blundered 7th, mistake 10th, under pressure when hampered 4 out, weakened after next opened 16/1 touched 16/1 £5000-£300
8		10	Akilak (IRE)	10-13	D F O'Regan	J Howard Johnson	8	16/1
		blundered 10th, always in rear, tailed off opened 20/1 touched 20/1 £16000-£1000 Each Way
9		1½	Buck The Legend (IRE)	11-1	P J Brennan	N A Twiston-Davies	7	20/1
		mid-division until weakened 4 out opened 20/1 touched 20/1 £8000-£400
10		6	Pablo Du Charmil (FR)	11-12	T Scudamore	D Pipe	8	33/1
		mid-division, mistake 13th, struggling when hampered 4 out, soon weakened opened 33/1 touched 33/1 £80000-£2000 Each Way
11		6	Boomshakalaka (IRE)	10-6	Felix De Giles (3)	N J Henderson	9	50/1
		chased leaders, weakening when hampered 4 out opened 50/1 touched 66/1
12		3¼	Osako D'airy (FR)	11-1	S Thomas	P F Nicholls	7	25/1
		always in rear, tailed off opened 25/1 touched 25/1
PU			Stan (NZ)	11-12	A Coleman	Miss V Williams	10	33/1
		always towards rear, tailed off and pulled up after 4 out opened 33/1 touched 33/1
PU			Oslot (FR)	11-11	R Walsh	P F Nicholls	7	25/1
		hit 11th, always in rear, tailed off and pulled up after 4 out opened 25/1 touched 25/1
PU			Pop (FR) (ex5)	11-1	A Tinkler	H D Daly	6	50/1
		mid-division, hit 5th, ridden when fell 4 out opened 50/1 touched 50/1
PU			Clarified (IRE)	10-11	P Townend (3)	A J Martin	7	17/2
		held up towards rear, fell 4th opened 8/1 touched 9/1 £18000-£2000 Each Way
PU			Turkish Surprise (FR)	10-11	W Hutchinson	A King	6	25/1
		mid-division, driven along 8th, behind when mistake 10th, tailed off and pulled up after 3 out opened 25/1 touched 28/1
PU			Oceanos des Obeaux (FR)	10-10	R Johnson	P J Hobbs	7	20/1
		chased leaders until 10th, soon behind, pulled up after 4 out opened 20/1 touched 20/1
PU			Fier Normand (FR)	10-7	N Fehily	Jonjo O'Neill	10	25/1
		always behind, tailed off and pulled up before 12th opened 25/1 touched 25/1
F			Silverburn (IRE)	11-0	Nick Scholfield (3)	P F Nicholls	8	20/1
		led until 3rd, led 7th until next, weakened quickly approaching 12th, blundered 13th, tailed off when pulled up before last opened 25/1 touched 25/1
F			Bible Lord (IRE)	10-9	M D Grant	Andrew Turnell	8	20/1
		mid-division when fell 5th opened 28/1 touched 28/1
F			Le Burf (FR)	10-4	M Bradburne	G R I Smyly	8	28/1
		chased leaders, hit 2nd and 8th, not fluent 9th, still close up when fell 4 out opened 25/1 touched 28/1
UR			Perce Rock	11-3	A P McCoy	T Stack	7	15/2
		mid-division, closing, under pressure when badly hampered and unseated rider 4 out opened 8/1 touched 8/1 £9000-£1000 £24000-£3000 Each Way £10000-£1200 £8000-£1000 Each Way £5000-£600

Non-Runners
NR			Borora	10-0	Mr O Greenall (5)	R Lee	10

Tote Win: Ł48.70 Tote Place: Ł11.20,Ł1.70,Ł2.30,Ł2.40
Straight Forecast: Ł206.04 Tricast: Ł1942.58 Exacta: Ł225.50 Trifecta: Ł2418.70
Swingers:1&2:Ł28.90, 2&3:Ł9.30, 1&3:Ł152.60

Jackpot: £60,012.58 carried forward to Cheltenham, 13th Mar Placepot: £537.00 Pool:£863,109.00 1,173.15 winning tickets Quadpot: £41.40 Pool:£35,912.47 640.50 winning tickets

Analysis: A Venetia Williams one-two as SOMETHING WELLS led home stablemate Ping Pong Sivola. The runner-up was backed throughout the day and she had them all on the stretch half a mile from home with Liam Treadwell pouring it on from a long way out. It looked as though he'd nicked it coming around the final bend but Something Wells gradually drew his stablemate in and jumped the last upsides before asserting on the run-in. Ping Pong Sivola rallied to her credit but couldn't quite get back up.