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Good job Ex RubyLight. Bernie with another quality ride on Zabeel Champion, these days he doesn’t pick up many mounts for trainers besides his wife but when he does he’s one to watch out for. I feel like he should be riding Snap Decision and not Watters who has seemed too keen on getting Snap to the front early.
Thanks green, but despite having backed four winners at the meeting today, I still haven’t hit one Superfecta. In the 1st two races and in this one it’s always one horse that was missing.
Well, better luck next time.
Seddon looks really good in the walking ring, stringhalt aside. Ziggy a bit tucked up but that may just be how he is.
Great performance from the winner. After all he was 2nd to Hewick in last year’s race.
Noah and the Ark! Stellar ride by Harry Beswick, biggest win of his American career. Todd McKenna a great trainer getting the restless gelding back into form. Seddon and Salvador Ziggy ran their races but may have been a bit too confident early on and the “Americans” (Irish-bred, of course) take advantage.
When my lad’s chance had gone I was cheering for “Sed-DONNN!” (I hope that pronunciation sticks) but the winner did it very well.
Ah as expected all the “you call that a Grand National?” jabs come out on social media. Didn’t hear that nearly as much when Hewick won it
Enjoyed that. The first American jumps race I’ve ever watched. Definitely had an amateur look to it but the prize money makes ours look like the amateur sport.
The ground was very testing but I’d say those sitting on Salvador Ziggy tickets for the National Hunt Chase will be weeping. Couldn’t get home over 2 and a half miles there never mind 3m6f. Winner did it well.
Don’t worry about social media, Miss Woodford. It was a very entertaining meeting and the course was in excellent shape as were the horses.
I think it’s even more interesting if you’re out there to attend the meeting.
So, what’s the connection between the winning horse and Harrison Beswick who seems to have ridden him when he was trained in the UK? Annoyingly I’m looking after the grandchildren and, after watching the earlier races missed the ‘National’….
TakeYourTime, you should watch more! All the spring and fall races are livestreamed on the NSA website. Next Saturday is the Great Meadow meet featuring the International Gold Cup timber race (the superior kind of fences!), the G2 Ferguson Memorial, and the “Steeplethon” cross-country. Next month is the 4-mile Pennsylvania Hunt Cup over timber at Unionville, and the late-season meetings in South Carolina and Georgia.
The races may look like point-to-points but the crowds are vibrant and the sense of tradition and history are comparable to any track in the UK.“Definitely had an amateur look to it but the prize money makes ours look like the amateur sport.”
They may be racing around cones in a field but the ground was in lovely order and they know how to get a race off on time.
moehat, some background from this article after last year’s upset Lonesome Glory win
“English jump jockey Harrison Beswick takes an annual holiday with some friends in Saratoga and met American jump trainer Todd McKenna during a night out in 2019. They talked horses, watched a phone video of a handicap hurdle at Worcester and – after breakfast at The Horseshoe (naturally) a deal was struck to send the then 5-year-old gelding to America. He’d won four in England for Beswick’s cousin Bart Beswick and trainer Donald McCain Jr., but the American experiment failed in two starts in the height of the pandemic in 2020 – a seventh and a sixth – in mid-level handicap company. McKenna aimed for 2021, and sent his horse to the Carolina Cup at Camden, S.C., in May. With Harrison Beswick aboard for the first time in nearly two years, the son of Vinnie Roe charged up late to win the handicap hurdle by 3 lengths.”
Since then Harry has raced a lot more in the USA with great success (he leads in the jockey championship race), and while they’ve sold 50% the Beswicks still follow him closely.In the final flat race McLovin won despite throwing in some jumps over the dirt path that leads to the infield! He’s never raced over fences but I’m sure Keri Brion or Leslie Young will be jumping at the chance to get him as a prospect.
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