Sporting Life - Racing | Result, Newbury 29-11-2008 Hennessy Gold Cup Handicap Chase (grade 3)

Saturday November 29 2008

Newbury 14:40 - Result

Hennessy Gold Cup Handicap Chase (grade 3)

£175000 added, 4yo plus, 3m 2f 110y, Class 1, £99768 penalty, 15 ran

Going: Good to Soft

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Winning Time: 6m 51.2s

Pos.	Draw	Dist.	Horse	Wt	Jockey	Trainer	Age	SP
1			Madison Du Berlais (FR)	11-4	T Scudamore	D Pipe	7	25/1
		chased leaders, blundered 9th, challenged 4 out, stayed upsides runner up, led last, driven out opened 33/1 touched 33/1
2		3	Air Force One (GER)	11-7	N Fehily	C J Mann	6	5/1
		always handy, not fluent 12th, went 2nd 15th, ridden to lead narrowly 4 out, strongly pressed when hit 2 out, mistake and headed last no extra flat opened 11/2 touched 11/2 £5000-£800 £3600-£600 £3000-£500 £5500-£1000 (x2) £4400-£800 £2000-£400
3		9	Snoopy Loopy (IRE) (ex6)	11-12	S E Durack	P Bowen	10	12/1
		chased leaders until lost place from 12th, blundered 14th, stayed on approaching 2 out, driven and kept on under pressure flat, went 3rd near finish opened 12/1 touched 14/1
4		½	Dear Villez (FR)	11-6	Christian Williams	P F Nicholls	6	16/1
		chased leader to 15th, already lost place when hampered 4 out, stayed on approaching 2 out, kept on well flat and finished well opened 16/1 touched 16/1
5		s.h	My Will (FR)	11-8	Nick Scholfield (5)	P F Nicholls	8	33/1
		held up in rear, headway approaching 17th, chased leaders approaching 2 out, left disputing 3rd last, no extra and lost 2 places towards finish opened 33/1 touched 33/1
6		1¼	High Chimes (IRE)	10-9	Paul Moloney	Evan Williams	9	16/1
		in rear, driven and struggling after 17th, hit 3 out, stayed on approaching last, never nearer opened 16/1 touched 20/1
7		2¼	Monkerhostin (FR)	11-9	R Johnson	P J Hobbs	11	33/1
		in rear, mistake and ridden 13th, stayed on under pressure from 2 out, not pace to get competitive opened 33/1 touched 33/1
8		18	Knowhere (IRE)	11-12	P J Brennan	N A Twiston-Davies	10	16/1
		mid-division, ridden after 6th, weakened 4 out opened 16/1 touched 16/1
9		7	Slim Pickings (IRE)	11-1	P W Flood	T J Taaffe	9	12/1
		mid-division, headway and travelling well when blundered badly and almost unseated rider 4 out, weakned after not recover opened 16/1 touched 16/1
10		1½	Oedipe (FR)	11-0	A Tinkler	N J Henderson	6	10/1
		in touch, blundered and weakened 16th, no chance when blundered 4 out opened 9/1 touched 10/1 £5500-£500 Each Way
11		15	Island Flyer (IRE)	10-0	D F O'Regan	T R George	6	9/2 f
		led to 4 out, weakened after next, tailed off opened 6/1 touched 6/1 £3250-£500 £6000-£1000 £3000-£480 (x3) £3000-£500 £5500-£1000 (x3) £3500-£700
PU			Albertas Run (IRE)	11-9	A P McCoy	Jonjo O'Neill	7	8/1
		towards rear, bludered 14th, no chance when blundered 4 out and pulled up opened 9/1 touched 9/1 £2800-£350 Each Way
PU			Verasi	10-9	P Hide	G L Moore	7	20/1
		towards rear, blundered 14th,driven along 16th, well behind 4 out, tailed off when pulled before last opened 16/1 touched 20/1 £11000-£500 Each Way
PU			Royal County Star (IRE)	10-8	Robert Colgan (3)	A J Martin	9	14/1
		never going well in rear, blundered 10th and 12th, struggling when pulled up 14th opened 11/1 touched 14/1
UR			Big Buck's (FR)	11-7	S Thomas	P F Nicholls	5	5/1
		held up in rear, smooth headway from 4 out to track leaders approaching 3 out, ridden in 3rd and held when blundered and unseated rider last opened 11/2 touched 11/2 £11000-£2000 £5500-£1000 (x2) £2750-£500 £4000-£800

Non-Runners
NR			Always Waining (IRE)	11-1	T J O'Brien	P Bowen	7
NR			Character Building (IRE)	10-6	D C Costello	J J Quinn	8

Tote Win: Ł33.90 Tote Place: Ł7.20,Ł2.50,Ł3.00
Straight Forecast: Ł150.17 Tricast: Ł1624.24 Exacta: Ł310.40 Trifecta: Ł6750.10
Swingers:1&2:Ł51.60, 2&3:Ł20.50, 1&3:Ł83.60

Jackpot: £17,185.08 carried forward to Kempton Park, 30th Nov Placepot: £112.00 Pool:£220,518.84 1,436.87 winning tickets Quadpot: £33.60 Pool:£14,017.29 308.15 winning tickets