REDCAR’S 2014 Flat season comes to a close next Tuesday with a seven-race programme scheduled to start at 1pm with a race for maiden two-year-olds.
The feature race of the meeting is the class three Market Cross Jewellers Handicap (2.30), run over 1m 2f.
The final meeting of the year will decide the destination of the trophies for Redcar’s leading trainer and jockey for the season.
At the moment, Malton-based trainers, Tim Easterby and Richard Fahey, lead the way in the trainers category, with Graham Lee holding a healthy advantage in the race to be leading jockey.
YESTERDAY’S 3.50 race at Catterick was unusual in that it featured three different runners from across the Irish Sea.
Irish raiders are relatively unusual at Catterick, but Tony Martin (Dara Tango), Oliver McKiernan (Whatuthink) and Mark McNiff (Balboni) all sent over horses for what looked, on paper, like a fairly unremarkable class five handicap.
The race was not without controversy as Dara Tango claimed the honours despite passing the post in second condition.
The first past the post, Jolie Blonde, was demoted to second position after a stewards’ inquiry.
THERE was plenty of North Yorkshire success on yesterday’s Catterick card, with Richard Fahey, Brian Ellison, Tim Easterby and John Quinn all saddling winners.
Ellison’s Polski Max was a particularly notable winner of the David Barker Memorial Handicap as he was having his first run for the Malton trainer after recently switching stables from Fahey.
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