Sporting Life - Racing | Result, Cheltenham 13-03-2009 Christie's Foxhunter Chase

Friday March 13 2009

Cheltenham 16:00 - Result

Christie's Foxhunter Chase

£40000 added, 5yo plus, 3m 2f 110y, Class 2, £24008 penalty, 24 ran

Going: Good to Soft, Good in places

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Winning Time: 6m 54.3s

Pos.	Draw	Dist.	Horse	Wt	Jockey	Trainer	Age	SP
1			Cappa Bleu (IRE)	12-0	Mr R Burton	E Crow	7	11/2
		mid-division, headway 7th, prominent from 13th, took narrow lead approaching 2 out, edged left soon after last, stayed on well to draw clear final 100 yards opened 5/1 touched 11/2 £10000-£1600 £5000-£800 (x2) £2750-£500 (x3)
2		12	Turthen (FR)	12-0	Miss C Tizzard	C St V Fox	8	25/1
		mid-division, headway 12th, challenging 3 out, every chance last, no extra and edged right flat opened 25/1 touched 25/1
3		½	Baby Run (FR)	12-0	Mr S Twiston-davies	N A Twiston-Davies	9	14/1
		with leader, hit 11th, led 13th, headed narrowly before 2 out, still close 3rd last, stayed on one pace flat opened 25/1 touched 25/1 £10000-£500
4		8	Amicelli (GER)	12-0	Mr T Greenall	Mrs C Coward	10	9/1
		chased leaders, hit 12th and lost place, ridden 16th, closed 18th, outpaced by leaders from 3 out opened 9/1 touched 9/1 £8000-£1000 (x2)
5		3¾	Robbers Glen (IRE)	12-0	Mrs V Jackson	Mrs V Jackson	9	18/1
		in rear and wide, some headway before 18th, not in contention, stayed on approaching 2 out, never a danger opened 25/1 touched 25/1
6		1½	Southwestern (IRE)	12-0	Mr N Harris	Mrs C C Scott	10	14/1
		held up, hampered 7th, headway approaching 13th, soon prominent, challenging 3 out, weakened before 2 out opened 16/1 touched 16/1
7		6	Chilling Place (IRE)	12-0	Mr B Tuckey	M Tuckey	10	33/1
		prominent, mistake 6th, ridden before 17th, hit 4 out, weakened after 3 out opened 33/1 touched 33/1
8		1¼	Murphy's Cardinal (IRE)	12-0	Miss N Carberry	Noel T Chance	13	12/1
		held up, hampered 7th, jumped right 13th, headway 16th, 5th and in touch when blundered 3 out, weakened before 2 out opened 14/1 touched 14/1
9		3½	Limerick Boy (GER)	12-0	Mr W Biddick	Miss V Williams	11	12/1
		mid-divison, hit 15th, blundered 16th, struggling from 4 out opened 12/1 touched 12/1 £5000-£400
10		10	Kingscliff (IRE)	12-0	Mr I Chanin	Mrs M McGuinness	12	25/1
		mid-division, hampered and lost place 7th, reminders 9th, struggled on from 16th opened 25/1 touched 28/1
11		3½	Always Right (IRE)	12-0	Mr C Dawson	J Wade	7	25/1
		held up, progress into mid-division 13th, closing when mistake 17th, weakened 3 out opened 25/1 touched 25/1
12		7	Juveigneur (FR)	12-0	Mr J T McNamara	E M O'Sullivan	12	7/2 f
		prominent, raced keenly, hit 16th, mistake next, mistake and weakened 4 out opened 9/2 touched 5/1 £25000-£5000 £15000-£3000 £15000-£3000 Each Way £10000-£2000 £5000-£1000 (x5) £9000-£2000 (x3) £4500-£1000 (x3) £4000-£1000 (x4)
13		3½	You Do The Math (IRE)	12-0	Mr J Horton	C E Longsdon	9	25/1
		mid-division, lost place 12th, in rear after opened 25/1 touched 28/1
14		18	Chief Oscar (IRE)	12-0	Mr J D Moore	B R Hamilton	8	33/1
		mid-division, in touch 11th, weakening when mistake 15th, mistake 17th opened 28/1 touched 33/1
15		3¼	Border Fusion	12-0	Mr M J O'Connor	G Hanmer	10	28/1
		jumped right several fences, in rear, behind 10th opened 25/1 touched 28/1
16		21	Dublin Hunter (IRE)	12-0	Mr J M Earls	G Elliott	13	100/1
		prominent, not fluent 5th, lost place 14th, soon in rear, tailed off opened 100/1 touched 100/1
PU			Back Nine (IRE)	12-0	Mr S Allwood	Miss Western	12	100/1
		held up, mistakes and reminders 11th, detached next, pulled up before 13th opened 80/1 touched 100/1
PU			Buckby Lane	12-0	Mr S Waley-Cohen	Miss J Starkey	13	66/1
		in touch, mistake 6th, hit 11th, hit and pecked 18th, weakened approaching 3 out, well behind when pulled up before 2 out opened 66/1 touched 66/1
PU			Christy Beamish (IRE)	12-0	Miss C Allen	Miss S Taylor	12	33/1
		in touch, lost place when hit 8th, behind from 12th, tailed off when pulled up before 2 out opened 28/1 touched 33/1 £12500-£500
PU			Gaelsbob	12-0	Mr W L Morgan	Mrs E Baker	12	40/1
		mistakes, held up, always in rear, tailed off when pulled up before 18th opened 50/1 touched 50/1
PU			Ofarel D'airy (FR)	12-0	Mr J Tudor	P F Nicholls	7	22/1
		not jumped well, mid-division, in touch from 7th, struggling 17th, tailed off when pulled up before 4 out opened 20/1 touched 22/1
F			Marblehead (IRE)	12-0	Mr M Wall	F M O'Brien	7	100/1
		led, hit 8th, mistake and headed 13th, weakened approaching 17th, behind when fell 3 out opened 100/1 touched 100/1
F			Proud Andees (IRE)	12-0	Mr A Wintle	G Hanmer	10	100/1
		mostly towards rear until fell 4 out opened 66/1 touched 100/1
F			Royal Auclair (FR)	12-0	Mr I Popham	P F Nicholls	12	8/1
		in touch, fell 7th opened 8/1 touched 9/1 £20000-£2000 £8000-£1000

Tote Win: Ł6.10 Tote Place: Ł2.80,Ł12.60,Ł4.60
Straight Forecast: Ł144.01 Tricast: Ł1886.81 Exacta: Ł220.50 Trifecta: Ł1481.40
Swingers:1&2:Ł83.20, 2&3:Ł477.30, 1&3:Ł30.70

Jackpot: £132,434.45 carried forward to Uttoxeter, 14th Mar Placepot: £656.50 Pool:£927,752.75 1,031.62 winning tickets Quadpot: £34.20 Pool:£38,354.74 828.78 winning tickets

Analysis: CAPPA BLEU had never run under rules before but kept to the inside all the way by the ultra-cool Richard Burton he ran out an emphatic winner. He jumped well and responded to pressure, keeping on all the way up the hill. He'll be running under rules next season and Evan Williams will train him for a crack at the Hennessy. With youth on his side, he could be back here next year taking on some of the big guns. Turthen looked a likely danger jumping the last but he tired towards the end, while Baby Run was prominent throughout and ran a solid race.