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13:20 Newcastle

Douglas Smith Memorial Novices' Chase (Class D)

  • 7 Runners
  • Distance: 3m
  • Going: Good to Soft
Weighed In
  • Winning Time: 6m 15.70s
  • 7 Ran
1
Silk - Royal Blue and Yellow stripes, White sleeves
9/1
  • Form 00-2612
  • Age 8
  • Weight 11-6

tracked leader, challenging when left in lead 6 out, made rest, stayed on well

2
Silk - Dark Blue and White diamonds, White sleeves, quartered cap
  • Form 1122-03
  • Age 7
  • Weight 11-0

close 2nd when fell 4th

3
Silk - BLACK and WHITE (halved), BLACK sleeves, WHITE armlets, BLACK cap
  • Form 01PP-42
  • Age 7
  • Weight 11-0

tracked leaders, outpaced 6 out, effort approaching 4 out, kept on to chase winner flat, no chance

4
Silk - Emerald green, white sleeves, emerald green chevrons, white cap
  • Form 5/011-12
  • Age 7
  • Weight 11-0

held up in rear, mistake 9th and reminders, tailed off from halfway

5
Silk - Dark Green, White stars, Dark Green sleeves, Dark Green cap, White star
66/1
  • Form 4-35354
  • Age 10
  • Weight 11-0

with leader, blundered and unseated rider 2nd

6
Silk - BEIGE, BROWN hooped sleeves, ORANGE cap
  • Form UF132-2
  • Age 8
  • Weight 11-0

led, challenged when fell 6 out

7
Silk - MAUVE and PINK check, WHITE sleeves
  • Form 01-1P2
  • Age 5
  • Weight 10-13

in touch, left 2nd 6 out, challenging when mistake 4 out, soon ridden, not fluent 2 out, tired when mistake last. no extra

In depth

Verdict

A competitive event which should throw up plenty of future winners. Keiran, whose run at Sedgefield was made to look better by the subsequent success of Forest Gunner, must go well, but he faces no easy task giving weight away all round. Joe Di Capo may do better when he goes handicapping and winning pointer King Of The Forest may just find one or two of these too sharp for him. The Grey Dyer has been somewhat disappointing since switching his attentions to chasing, so All Sonsilver gets the TEAMtalk vote. A fine big chasing type, he wasn't disgraced behind Telemoss at Ayr, and he faces nothing of that calibre in this, so he is taken to get off the mark over fences.