We have had a busy few weeks at the racecourse, the weather and one thing or another has kept us extremely busy! Our Pershore Plum festival was a brilliant day for all involved, although accidents around and about Worcester did leave us with horse boxes and racegoers being delayed by up to 2 hours reaching the Racecourse! Trainer Peter Bowen, who had travelled from Haverford west unloaded his runner in the first, Earl Grez, in the middle of Worcester and led the horse through the streets for a mile and a half to arrive in time!
Trainer Bob Buckler had a week to remember with Mister Matt. The horse ran on strongly to take the annual Pershore Plum Festival Land O’Plums Chase on the Tuesday night, and followed that with a win in Newton Abbot’s feature £25K handicap chase on the Saturday.
Richard Woollacott continued his fine run of form with Allerford Jack posting wins at Worcester and Uttoxeter, 5 days apart. Both handicap chases were sponsored coincidentally, by Weatherby’s Bloodstock Insurance. The hat-trick was posted at Stratford, with Woollacott’s Deb’s Dasher also scoring in the novice chase as the outsider of three at 14-1.
Goodwood was certainly Glorious for Cropthorne’s Tony Carroll whose Time Medicean won a 5 furlong, 23 runner race from the bottom of the handicap at 22/1. The horse now heads for the grey’s race at the July course in Newmarket which he won last year.
The new August ten day jump racing break has passed with not all parties happy. Jockey Aidan Coleman tweeted on Friday ‘no racing, no money’.
Consequently, there is a strong entry for the final evening meeting of the season at Pitchcroft today when gates open at 2.50pm and the first race is due off at 4.50pm. We look forward to your support!
