Sporting Life - Racing | Result, Cheltenham 12-12-2008 Glenfarclas Cross Country Handicap Chase

Friday December 12 2008

Cheltenham 13:20 - Result

Glenfarclas Cross Country Handicap Chase

£22500 added, 5yo plus, 3m 7f, Class 2, £14090 penalty, 16 ran

Going: Good to Soft, Soft in places

Race Report »

Winning Time: 9m 00.s

Pos.	Draw	Dist.	Horse	Wt	Jockey	Trainer	Age	SP
1			Garde Champetre (FR)	11-12	Miss N Carberry	E Bolger	9	7/4 f
		raced in 5th mainly, joined leader 29th, led approaching last, stayed on well, ridden out opened 9/4 touched 9/4 £42000-£12000 £2500-£1000 £2250-£1000 (x2) £1350-£600 (x2) £900-£400 £4000-£2000 (x3) £2000-£1000 (x3) £750-£400 £30000-£12000
2		1¼	L'ami (FR)	11-9	Mr J T McNamara	E Bolger	9	8/1
		made most, headed 9th until 11th, ridden and headed approaching last, kept on but no extra opened 15/2 touched 17/2
3		¾	Nadover (FR)	11-4	N Fehily	C J Mann	7	20/1
		mid-division, steady headway from 24th, ridden after 2 out, went 3rd approaching last, stayed on, closing at finish opened 16/1 touched 20/1
4		3½	Drombeag (IRE)	10-13	R M Power	E Bolger	10	7/1
		mid-division, headway 26th, ridden to chase leaders after 2 out, stayed on same pace opened 8/1 touched 8/1
5		nk	Pass Me By	11-7	A Coleman (3)	Miss S Smith	9	14/1
		tracked leader, hit 4th, led 9th until 11th, ridden after 21st, stayed on same pace approaching last opened 16/1 touched 16/1
6		1¾	Tawnies (IRE)	10-0	Charlie Huxley (5)	T G O'Leary	8	14/1
		mid-division, hit 4th, headway 18th, mistake 20th, ridden in 4th after 3 out, kept on same pace from next opened 14/1 touched 14/1
7		11	Philson Run (IRE)	10-7	M D Grant	Mrs S Leech	12	25/1
		mistake 4th, stumbled 18th, always towards rear opened 25/1 touched 25/1
8		4½	Florida Dream (IRE)	10-6	David England	N A Twiston-Davies	9	14/1
		held up towards rear, headway 19th, went 4th 21st, ridden after 25th, weakened after 3 out opened 14/1 touched 16/1
9		4½	Spare Change (IRE)	10-0	D J Condon	P J Rothwell	7	50/1
		tracked leaders, hit 19th, went 2nd and ridden after 24th, weakened 29th opened 50/1 touched 50/1
10		19	I Hear Thunder (IRE)	10-0	D Jacob	R H Buckler	10	14/1
		tracked leaders, ridden after 3 out, weakened after 2 out opened 14/1 touched 14/1
11		13	Heads Onthe Ground (IRE)	11-2	Mr Alan Berry (5)	E Bolger	11	14/1
		always in rear opened 14/1 touched 14/1 £10000-£700 Each Way
12		29	Il En Reve (FR)	10-0	S Quinlan (5)	O McKiernan	10	66/1
		always in rear opened 100/1 touched 100/1
13		3	Battle Axe (IRE)	10-5	S Jackson (3)	J J Lennon	8	33/1
		mid-division, struggling in rear when slithered to a halt 2 out opened 33/1 touched 33/1
PU			Crystal d'Ainay (FR)	11-7	R Thornton	A King	9	16/1
		mid-division, struggling in rear when mistake 21st, soon lost touch, pulled up after 24th opened 14/1 touched 16/1
PU			Wonderkid	11-3	K Whelan	A J Martin	8	16/1
		mid-division, hit 12th, behind from 20th, pulled up after 24th opened 11/1 touched 16/1
UR			Sorry Al (IRE)	10-3	L P Flynn (5)	C F Swan	8	100/1
		in touch until weakened 26th, in rear when blundered and unseated rider next opened 100/1 touched 100/1

Tote Win: Ł2.70 Tote Place: Ł1.30,Ł2.20,Ł4.60,Ł1.70
Straight Forecast: Ł15.59 Tricast: Ł220.87 Exacta: Ł13.10 Trifecta: Ł640.20
Swingers:1&2:Ł4.00, 2&3:Ł36.30, 1&3:Ł15.20

Jackpot: £22,955.14 carried forward to Cheltenham, 13th Dec Placepot: £135.00 Pool:£155,535.05 840.87 winning tickets Quadpot: £44.20 Pool:£10,712.86 179.10 winning tickets