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Am going to Kempton on Sun 19th October with a few friends for what I think is their first jumps meeting of the season.
Anyone tell me what kind of card we can expect? Any decent races?
Here’s last year’s corresponding card so I presume it’s something similar, if not almost exactly the same:
Good luck with your hobbit sized champion, fair play too him and conetcions given the terible record generaly of triumph hurdle winners.
Is it me or is Katchit a Cheltnum specalist, he seems too run allot better their than anywhere else.
Katchit form at Cheltenham
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Katchit form away from Cheltenham
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Not much in it- defeats only by Degas Art (3 yo hurdle giving 8lb), Harchibald and Al Eile in the Fighting Fifth (btn 3.25L), and Osana (giving 4lb, beaten 8L).
Excellent record at Cheltenham, but pretty impressive away from it too. We all know Harchibald can beat anything on the rare days that he has got his mind on it.
If you go onto the Bloodstock section of the RP you can view upcoming meets in the UK for the next 30 days under cards (future cards).
Kempton 19th October
2:20 Phil Dungey 40th Birthday Juvenile Novices’ Hurdle
2:50 Book Your Christmas Party At Kempton Beginners’ Chase
3:25 Book Kempton Tickets On 0844 5793008 Novices Hurdle (Listed)
4:00 Kempton Park Handicap Chase
4:35 Book Now For Boxing Day Hurdle
5:05 kempton.co.uk "National Hunt" Novices’ Hurdle
5:35 Mix Business With Pleasure Handicap ChaseOne of the handicap chases on the card is the race formerly known as the Charisma Gold Cup. It was described a little disparagingly in one organ last year as being "just another handicap chase nowadays", but it’s still a decent enough contest for all that it boasts a lower ratings ceiling than the likes of the Summer Plate, Lord Mildmay Chase and erstwhile Mercedes-Benz Chase before it.
The other two chases are both 2m affairs – the handicap saw the reappearance of the likes of Lennon last year, the beginners’ contest Mahogany Blaze and Self Defense.
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Cheers for that guys.
Some good races on the card. Hopefully Katchit will make an appearance.
Used to be THE start of the jumps season for me, when it was the Charisma Gold Cup day including the Captain Quist Hurdle (once won, unforgettably, by Jinxy Jack, in make-all fashion, on a rare early-season foray south for the Richards-Doughty combo).
Now just a shadow of it’s former self, but still worth a watch.
Went to that meeting with my wife to be a few years ago.Backed 6 seconds-all of them were going best turning into the home straight.
Its a really nice fixture at a course which is a great jumps venue of course
I willbe there
I think I’m working a week on Sunday, otherwise I’d join you! It’s been over four years since I last went to a Kempton jumps meeting (so many of them clash with pointing commitments), so that wants putting right sharpish.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Jeremy. Must do that. I go to a lot of the jumps there so let me know when. Always go second day of Xmas festival btw
Noted, Clive – I’ll see if I can get there for one of the midweek meets in early new year, if not before! I’m back Oop North for Christmas and Mum and Dad Column want taking to Wetherby on the 27th, so you won’t see me at day two of Christmas Kempers, alas.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
That’s my usual port of call on the 27th Jeremy as I go home for Xmas.
Hopefully there’ll be no weather problems.Given Wetherby’s current travails, it might not be the weather problems we have to be mindful of but the going ones! An arrid November and December could be a bit of a disaster for the venue.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
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