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This would normally be Epsom Derby Trials day but with the track out of action at the moment it has been transferred to Nottingham
While your enjoying the Beeb coverage get yourself some free money and lay the Haggas horse Heaven Knows in the 2.55 if anywhere near its tissue price of 5/1. Nottingham strongly favoured prominently ridden horses on the round course last Saturday evening, this horse is ridden from the rear by hold up expert (not) R Hills and has been soundly beaten on all 4 starts above a handicap mark of 88 (94 today).
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Thanks for that, Marb.
Hadn’t realised, and as I’m child-minding at a terrestrial-only house for the day, I thought I’d miss it.
GD, thanks also,I wondered how Nottingham had come to have a 30k handicap? I fondly imagined they had started to live up to their promise to improve the quality of their flat cards – their laughable justification for ending NH racing at the course all those years ago
Marb,
Refurbishment of the main grandstand and building a new entrance. They haven’t raced since Derby day last year.
Various bits of their program were transferred to Kempton, Sandown and Goodwood last season.
AP
I fondly imagined they had started to live up to their promise to improve the quality of their flat cards – their laughable justification for ending NH racing at the course all those years ago
Still sadly, sadly missed – Colwick Park was a proper, big, fair, galloping jumps track of the kind racing could ill afford to lose.
As regards terrestrial coverage, unless C4 has popped there for the odd Scoop 6-filling race, this will be just about the first coverage at the track since C4 used to cover the big February trials meeting there in the mid-90s. If memory serves, the 1995 renewal comprised one of Simon Holt’s very first commentary engagements for Channel 4 Racing, if not the first.
Jeremy
(graysonscolumn)Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
Has it? Ah, I will have missed that over and over, then. Wrong code.
gc
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
Thank you so much for that info; today is my day off as well – radio times has just got world snooker down, so I wouldn’t have had it on. A friend of mine wrote a book about Nottingham Racecourse a few years ago called ‘A Touch of Colwick’, but I’ve never been there as I find it rather difficult to find, unlike Uttoxeter which is straight up the A 50 and there in 20 minutes. I’ve always told people to go there because I know trainers such as Henry Cecil start their youngsters off there, but never been myself. Thanks again.
While your enjoying the Beeb coverage get yourself some free money and lay the Haggas horse Heaven Knows in the 2.55 if anywhere near its tissue price of 5/1. Nottingham strongly favoured prominently ridden horses on the round course last Saturday evening, this horse is ridden from the rear by hold up expert (not) R Hills and has been soundly beaten on all 4 starts above a handicap mark of 88 (94 today).
Well, I don’t think you’ll struggle to find backers near the tissue price at least.
It amazes me that the Craven meeting hasn’t been shown on terrestrial TV yet the Beeb show this nothing meeting from Nottingham. Why? Something isnt right somewhere.
Two boring handicaps and a so called Derby trial with three runners.Its hardly enthralling stuff.
Drill Segeant to turn over Curtain Call though who is somehow second favourite for the Derby having been beaten on four of his five outings as a juvenile. If this horse wins the Derby I’ll be amazed.
Are the two Intercasino-sponsored handicaps which started the card today registered as the Great Metropolitan and City & Suburban of blessed memory?
And presumably the 3yo Conditions Stakes was formerly either the Blue Riband Trial or Warren Stakes.
The ditching of traditional race names is very irritating
They should bring back jump racing there and at Windsor – Lingfield have managed to do it and their crowds have gone up!!!!
…is the correct answer. Five points!
gc
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
and if they re opened the racecourse station which was closed in 1959 I would be able to get there, as well….
What on earth is the BBC up to?
It makes no sense at all broadcasting this run of the mill stuff. It bears no resemblance to an Epsom spring meeting card.
If it’s been transferred from Epsom they are under no obligation to show it, remember a few years ago when they bought the rights to show the top Sunday races from Longchamp, then refused to broadcast it live.
Are the two Intercasino-sponsored handicaps which started the card today registered as the Great Metropolitan and City & Suburban of blessed memory?
And presumably the 3yo Conditions Stakes was formerly either the Blue Riband Trial or Warren Stakes.
The ditching of traditional race names is very irritating
And they have the nerve to call them HERITAGE handicaps too!!
Imagine in 50 years time, they’ll be calling it the ‘Fly Virgin to Uranus’ Heritage Handicap
I’ve got a racecard from when I last visited Nottingham in 1995 which I think could have been the last year for NH. In the novice Hunters Chase a certain Monaughty Man ran as did Proud Sun who went on to become a bit of a star in his sphere. Other old friends included Eastern Destiny, Al Hashimi, Young Miner, The Malakarma, Bankhead & who could forget the wonderful Jimbalou. Up to 21 runners in each race, I really liked it as a NH course it was very fair, refuse to go now on principle!
Some great favourites of mine in that list as well as yours, QC – no wonder we get on! If memory serves that was Monaughty Man’s last race before his sole career win, in a 2m5.5f Ayr hunters’ chase. His career highlight, an utterly respectable seventh in that year’s Aintree Foxhunters Chase, was still to come, though.
I think it was The Malakarma on whom Ben Pollock first made his name under Rules, wasn’t it? And yes, Bob Brazington’s Jimbalou, along with his stablemate Jimpanzee, always brought a smile to my face when they ran.
gc
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
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