Sporting Life - Racing | Result, Cheltenham 12-03-2009 Fulke Walwyn Kim Muir Challenge Cup

Thursday March 12 2009

Cheltenham 16:40 - Result

Fulke Walwyn Kim Muir Challenge Cup

£60000 added, 5yo plus, 3m 1f 110y, Class 2, £36012 penalty, 24 ran

Going: Good to Soft

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Winning Time: 6m 42.9s

Pos.	Draw	Dist.	Horse	Wt	Jockey	Trainer	Age	SP
1			Character Building (IRE)	11-12	Mr J J Codd	J J Quinn	9	16/1
		held up in rear, headway approaching 16th, tracking leaders going well from 3 out, challenged before last, led flat, edged right, pushed out opened 16/1 touched 16/1 £8000-£500
2		1	Pretty Star (GER)	10-13	Mr D R Cook	Miss V Williams	9	16/1
		held up towards rear, not fluent 5th, headway 14th, tracking leaders 3 out, led last, headed flat, not quicken opened 16/1 touched 16/1 £28000-£2000 Each Way
3		2¾	Newbay Prop (IRE)	11-1	Mr K E Power	A J Martin	10	20/1
		chased leaders, not fluent 3rd (water), hit 9th, tracking leaders from 3 out, not much room bend before 2 out, hung left flat, stayed on, snatched 3rd post opened 16/1 touched 20/1
4		s.h	Bowleaze (IRE)	11-3	Mr S Allwood (7)	R H & Mrs S Alner	10	16/1
		in touch, challenging 3 out, led before 2 out, headed last, no extra towards finish opened 16/1 touched 16/1 £8000-£500 Each Way
5		4½	Butler's Cabin (FR)	11-8	Mr Alan Berry	Jonjo O'Neill	9	20/1
		mid-division, headway 11th, tracking leaders from 3 out, one pace flat opened 25/1 touched 25/1 £12500-£500
6		1½	High Chimes (IRE)	11-12	Mr J Tudor (3)	Evan Williams	10	25/1
		held up in rear, headway after 15th, hit 3 out, soon slightly outpaced, rallied 2 out, no extra flat opened 16/1 touched 25/1
7		1¼	Poker De Sivola (FR)	11-3	Miss N Carberry	Ferdy Murphy	6	7/2 f
		mid-division, mistake 2nd, headway 12th, tracking leaders from 3 out, no extra flat opened 9/2 touched 9/2 £9000-£2000 £10000-£2500 £8000-£2000 (x2) £4000-£1000 (x4) £14000-£4000 Each Way £14000-£4000
8		nse	Oodachee	11-5	Mr R O Harding	C F Swan	10	20/1
		prominent, challenging 3 out, hit 2 out, no extra flat opened 20/1 touched 20/1 £20000-£1000 Each Way (x2)
9		12	Le Duc (FR)	11-2	Mr I Popham (3)	P F Nicholls	10	20/1
		mid-division, headway after 9th, hampered 14th, hit 16th, tracking leaders from 3 out, weakened flat opened 20/1 touched 20/1 £10000-£500 Each Way £8000-£400
10		3½	Irish Raptor (IRE)	11-2	Mr S Twiston-davies (7)	N A Twiston-Davies	10	9/1
		mistakes, held up towards rear, headway 14th, weakened before 3 out opened 16/1 touched 16/1 £80000-£5000 £10000-£800
11		1	Sherwoods Folly	11-8	Mr R Burton	H D Daly	7	28/1
		led to 8th, chased leader until left in lead 14th, headed before 2 out, weakened last opened 25/1 touched 28/1
12		6	Openide	11-3	Mr M Wall (7)	B W Duke	8	28/1
		chased leaders, hit 9th, lost place 11th, behind when hampered 14th opened 25/1 touched 28/1
13		18	Aggie's lad (IRE)	10-13	Mr Derek O'Connor	A J Martin	7	16/1
		held up in rear, hit 2nd, some headway after 4 out, hit 3 out, soon weakened opened 12/1 touched 16/1
14		5	Arteea (IRE)	11-12	Mr J L Monk (3)	D Pipe	10	100/1
		mistakes 3rd (water), always behind opened 100/1 touched 100/1
15		1¼	Alright Now M'Lad (IRE)	11-7	Mr J T McNamara	Jonjo O'Neill	9	40/1
		jumped slowly 10th, always towards rear opened 40/1 touched 40/1
16		7	Le Toscan (FR)	11-3	Mr T J Cannon (7)	D Pipe	9	33/1
		mid-division, hit 6th, weakened approaching 17th opened 25/1 touched 33/1 £14000-£500 Each Way
17		½	Double Dizzy	11-5	Mr J Derham (7)	R H Buckler	8	33/1
		towards rear, hit 7th, headway 14th, weakened after next opened 25/1 touched 33/1
PU			Ice Tea (IRE)	11-11	Mr B J Toomey (5)	D McCain Jnr	9	40/1
		in touch, lost place 10th, behind 12th, tailed off when pulled up before 16th opened 33/1 touched 40/1
PU			Go For One (IRE)	11-5	Mr T Greenall	Miss V Williams	10	20/1
		mistakes mid-division, behind from 7th, tailed off when pulled up before 2 out opened 20/1 touched 20/1
PU			Shouldhavehadthat (IRE)	11-3	Mr S Waley-Cohen (3)	N J Henderson	7	6/1
		in touch, hampered 4th and 14th, weakened approaching 17th, behind when pulled up before 3 out opened 15/2 touched 15/2 £7500-£1000 Each Way £7500-£1000 £14000-£2000 Each Way £6500-£1000 Each Way £5200-£800
PU			Without A Doubt	11-3	Mr R O'Sullivan	C Llewellyn	10	40/1
		chased leaders, hit 7th, weakened after 15th, tailed off when pulled up before 2 out opened 50/1 touched 50/1
PU			Brooklyn Breeze (IRE)	11-1	Mrs R Dobbin	L Lungo	12	33/1
		held up towards rear, mid-division 8th, hit 4 out, weakening when hit 3 out, tailed off when pulled up before 2 out opened 33/1 touched 33/1
F			Warpath (IRE)	11-0	Nick Williams	Evan Williams	8	50/1
		chased leader, led 8th, fell 14th opened 50/1 touched 50/1
UR			Alexanderthegreat (IRE)	11-0	Mr W Biddick	Miss V Williams	11	10/1
		mostly in touch until hampered and unseated rider 14th opened 11/1 touched 11/1 £10000-£1000

Tote Win: Ł22.50 Tote Place: Ł4.10,Ł4.40,Ł5.70,Ł4.70
Straight Forecast: Ł211.73 Tricast: Ł5130.22 Exacta: Ł459.70 Trifecta: Ł6414.80
Swingers:1&2:Ł76.30, 2&3:Ł139.00, 1&3:Ł49.80

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 really competitive finale and seven jumped the last with chances but it was former Hennessy third CHARACTER BUILDING who showed his class under a patient and confident ride from Jamie Codd. John Quinn's grey jumped well and travelled well and Codd was pulling double as they approached the second last. Codd waited still at the last fence and still didn't go for his whip with 100 yards to go before eventually driving him out for a comfortable win. Class told here and he could go for the Grand National next. Venetia Williams' Pretty Star ran with credit but didn't look like getting past the winner on the run-in while Newbay Prop stayed on to snatch third on the line.