Sporting Life - Racing | Result, Ascot 18-06-2009 Norfolk Stakes (group 2)

Thursday June 18 2009

Ascot 14:30 - Result

Norfolk Stakes (group 2)

£90000 added, 2yo only, 5f, Class 1, £51093 penalty, 11 ran

Going: Good to Firm

Surface: Turf

Race Report »

Winning Time: 1m 02.07s

Pos.	Draw	Dist.	Horse	Wt	Jockey	Trainer	Age	SP
1	6		Radiohead	9-1	J P Spencer	B J Meehan	2	10/1
		ponied to start, pulled hard, hung right, held up in rear, good headway towards stands rails when badly hampered well over 1f out, soon recovered to challenge over 1f out, strong run to lead final 150 yards, won going away opened 9/1 touched 10/1 £17500-£1750 Each Way
2	5	2	Reignier	9-1	A Elliott	K R Burke	2	50/1
		chased leaders, headway and squeezed through 2f out, ridden to lead over 1f out, headed and outpaced by winner final 150 yards opened 40/1 touched 50/1
3	11	½	Tawaabb	9-1	L Dettori	M R Channon	2	7/1
		close up on outside, pushed along to chase leaders 2f out, driven and strong challenge over 1f out, unable to quicken final 100 yards opened 11/1 touched 11/1
4	10	2½	Nosedive	9-1	R L Moore	W J Haggas	2	14/1
		not much room soon after start, held up, good progress and going for gap when badly hampered well over 1f out, switched right soon after, ran on inside final furlong, not able to recover opened 14/1 touched 14/1
5	2	¾	Monsieur Chevalier (IRE)	9-1	R Hughes	R Hannon	2	6/4 f
		edging right throughout, chased leaders, pushed along halfway, ridden to challenge when badly hampered and knocked sideways well over 1f out, no extra inside final furlong, not recover opened 13/8 touched 13/8 £3500-£2000 (x3) £1750-£1000 (x2) £1400-£800 (x2) £700-£400 £6500-£4000 (x4) £3250-£2000 £2600-£1600 £1625-£1000 (x3) £1300-£800 (x6) £6000-£4000 £3000-£2000 (x4) £1500-£1000
6	4	2	Diamond Johnny G (USA)	9-1	S Drowne	J R Best	2	16/1
		behind, pushed along halfway, no progress until passed beaten horses inside final furlong opened 33/1 touched 33/1
7	12	1½	Star Rover (IRE)	9-1	J F Egan	P D Evans	2	28/1
		pressed leader, pushed along halfway, weakened final 1f opened 33/1 touched 40/1
8	7	2¼	Running Mate (IRE)	9-1	J Fortune	J H M Gosden	2	50/1
		slowly away, outpaced and always behind opened 40/1 touched 50/1
9	3	1¼	Yogaroo (USA)	9-1	J Velazquez	W A Ward	2	10/3
		led and wandered in front, ridden, swerved badly left well over 1f out, soon headed, weakened and eased opened 11/4 touched 10/3 £7000-£2000 £3500-£1000 (x2) £6667-£2000 £3000-£900 (x2) £2000-£600 (x2) £3000-£1000 £1800-£600 £1500-£500 £5500-£2000
10	1	3½	Kingdom Of Light	9-1	P Mulrennan	J Howard Johnson	2	20/1
		chased leaders, hard ridden 2f out, soon weakened opened 16/1 touched 20/1
11	9	4	Here Now And Why (IRE)	9-1	N Callan	K A Ryan	2	18/1
		chased leaders, pushed along halfway, weakened rapidly over 1f out opened 20/1 touched 20/1

Non-Runners
NR			Moran Gra (USA)	9-1		Ms J Morgan	2

Tote Win: Ł10.00 Tote Place: Ł2.30,Ł9.10,Ł2.30
Straight Forecast: Ł430.41 Tricast: Ł3714.71 Exacta: Ł299.00 Trifecta: Ł7758.80
Swingers:1&2:Ł50.60, 2&3:Ł42.30, 1&3:Ł8.20

Jackpot: £95,995.03 carried forward to Ascot, 19th Jun Placepot: £3,521.10 Pool:£447,711.72 92.82 winning tickets Quadpot: £134.20 Pool:£34,234.41 188.73 winning tickets

Analysis: This race was notable for the interference caused by American challenger Yogaroo a furlong from home who hampered Monsieur Chevalier and the winner RADIOHEAD. That Brian Meehan's charge recovered superbly to win by two lengths is evidence of his superiority over the field and he is value for at least another length. Yogaroo tried to burn off his challengers as his stablemates had done earlier in the week but he tired after three and a half furlongs, knocking into Monsieur Chevalier who in turn nearly put Radiohead through the stands rail. Jamie Spencer snatched up his mount before unleashing a fresh challenge up the rail and he won going away. He's smart and should be effective over six. Reignier ran a blinder to finish second and Tawaabb was a creditable third. Monsieur Chevalier should be given another chance seen as he was badly affected by the interference.