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Happy New Year to all.
2129 races in with 264 different winning trainers. The leaderboard is as follows (In brackets I have shown the position in the official trainers championship based on prize money);
1st Skelton 424 pts (1st)
2nd Murphy 289 pts (2nd)
3rd Nicholls 225 pts (3rd)
4th Owen 211 pts (7th)
5th Pauling 199 pts (4th)
6th Snowden 198 pts (8th)
7th Henderson 161 pts (5th)
8th O’Brien 155 pts (10th)
9th Bowen 144 pts (12th)
10th N & W Twiston-Davies 143 pts (9th)
11th Tizzard 125 pts (6th)
12th Derham 124 pts (15th)
13th G & J Moore 118 pts (18th)
14th Gordon 107 pts (16th)
15th Honeyball 103 pts (11th)
16th Russell & Scudamore 97 pts (13th)
17th Parkinson & Smith 94 pts (19th)
18th McCain 93 pts (20th)
19th Greatrex 93 pts (28th)
20th Mulholland 89 pts (25th)An ‘environmentally friendly community’. Fat chance of that ever happening! The vast majority of the native population are sick to death of watching large swathes of the
‘environment’ being concreted over. If you live in the South East you’d realise that the infrastructure is almost beyond braking point and what it doesn’t require is hundreds of thousands of more homes. And of course we all know the reason behind what’s fuelling this demand.Here’s an idea. Dig up Kempton’s AW course and replace it with a turf track. You could have some decent flat races on that!
Leading trainers for December;
1st Skelton 99 pts
2nd Pauling 71 pts
3rd Henderson 57 pts
4th Murphy 55 pts
5th= G & J Moore 51 pts
5th= Nicholls 51 pts
7th Parkinson & Smith 39 pts
8th Mulholland 36 pts
9th O’Neill & O’Neill 34 pts
10th Greatrex 31 pts
11th= Derham 29 pts
11th= Gordon 29 pts
13th= W Mullins 26 pts
13th= N & W Twiston-Davies 26 pts
15th= McCain 25 pts
15th= O’Brien 25 pts
17th= N Richards 23 pts
17th= Scott 23 pts
17th= Tizzard 23 ptsToday Nicholls became the 3rd trainer this season to have a winner in every class/grade.
Mullins moved up to 59th overall place and has the same amount of points as Curtis on 26 pts. Curtis has had 2 more winners than Mullins.
After 2040 races and 261 different winning trainers the current leaderboard is as follows;
1st Skelton 393 pts (101 wins)
2nd Murphy 272 pts (82 wins)
3rd Owen 205 pts (74 wins)
4th Nicholls 201 pts (51 wins)
5th Snowden 198 pts (59 wins)
6th Pauling 195 pts (55 wins)
7th Henderson 157 pts (39 wins)
8th O’Brien 147 pts (49 wins)
9th Bowen 144 pts (45 wins)
10th N & W Twiston-Davies 136 pts (42 wins)Pauling became the 2nd trainer this season after Skelton to have a winner in all classes/grades of races.
Leading Irish trainers are Elliott with 58 pts in 31st place and Willie Mullins with 20 pts in 66th place.
The aerial shot of these fatal falls won’t do racing any favours having a clear view of the stricken horse & jockey.
Would Redrow want the publicity of being the company that built over such an iconic & historic racetrack that dates back to the 19th Century where horses such as Arkle, Dessie & Kauto have strutted their stuff?
Perhaps they don’t care and have no interest in racing but their name will be forever synonymous for building over part of racing’s rich heritage.
And this doesn’t mean that we should forget the role The Jockey Club and Government will have played in this.
1949 races and 258 different winning trainers;
The leaderboard after today;
1st Skelton 369 pts (1-4-3-2-16-22-33-14)
2nd Murphy 253 pts (0-2-0-2-5-14-36-18)
3rd Owen 202 pts (0-0-0-0-2-8-34-29)
4th Snowden 196 pts (0-1-0-1-5-13-29-9)
5th Nicholls 189 pts (0-5-1-1-4-10-22-5)
6th Pauling 176 pts (0-0-2-2-3-15-15-15)
7th Henderson 148 pts (2-2-0-0-3-11-15-5)
8th O’Brien 147 pts (0-0-0-0-5-7-20-17)
9th Bowen 144 pts (0-0-0-0-5-9-21-10)
10th N & W Twiston-Davies 136 pts (0-0-0-0-3-10-23-6)Trainers in the top 50 who haven’t registered a win or any points in December so far are Bowen, Longsdon, Candlish (stable in shut down), Keighley, Fry & Sayer.
It doesn’t help when high profile trainers such as Dan Skelton just shrug their shoulders. Has he ever had a top class winner there? What if the Jockey Club wanted to concrete over Warwick racecourse?Just thankful he wasn’t training in the 1970s when the threat of the bulldozers at Aintree was ever present.
Kempton is the closest course to our capital city and perhaps one of the reasons attendances have dwindled (no thanks to The Jockey Club not investing in the course) is the rapidly changing demographic in the last 20 years. Have a look at any racecourse and tell me how diverse the crowd is?
Sandown is no substitute for Kempton especially in the Winter months. Sandown’s hurdles course is nearly always a slog and won’t take many more meetings.
If racing sacrifices a Grade 1 track (probably one of the fairest tracks in the UK) and with the amount of history Kempton holds then all those involved should hang their heads in shame.
One of the good things to come out of Covid was the massive prices being offered on outsiders in maiden/novice races. Was it such a massive shock though? No runners from the top dozen yards in the UK on hock deep ground.
1862 races into the season with 256 different winning trainers. The leaderboard is as follows;
1st Skelton 351 pts (91 wins)
2nd Murphy 244 pts (74 wins)
3rd Owen 197 pts (71 wins)
4th Snowden 186 pts (55 wins)
5th Nicholls 175 pts (44 wins)
6th Pauling 156 pts (46 wins)
7th O’Brien 145 pts (48 wins)
8th Bowen 144 pts (45 wins)
9th Henderson 132 pts (35 wins)
10th N & W Twiston-Davies 126 pts (39 wins)Of the races run so far this season;
4 x Class 1 (Grade 1)
21 x Class 1 (Grade 2)
16 x Class 1 (Premier Handicap)
19 x Class 1 (Listed)
120 x Class 2
272 x Class 3
774 x Class 4
636 x Class 5I do listen to a number of non racing podcasts (all thanks to Covid) but the only racing one I listen to on a regular basis is the Nick Luck Daily. Chapman appears on that too but Jane Mangan is my favourite guest.
If you’re interested in True Crime I would definitely recommend listening to the podcast Sea of Lies.
1755 races into the season. 249 winning trainers. The leaderboard is as follows;
1st Skelton 320 pts (8 Class 1 winners)
2nd Murphy 240 pts (4 Class 1 winners)
3rd Owen 190 pts (0 Class 1 winners)
4th Snowden 186 pts (2 Class 1 winners)
5th Nicholls 175 pts (7 Class 1 winners)
6th Bowen 144 pts (0 Class 1 winners)
7th Pauling 138 pts (3 Class 1 winners)
8th O’Brien 135 pts (0 Class 1 winners)
9th N & W Twiston-Davies 123 pts (0 Class 1 winners)
10th Henderson 116 pts (3 Class 1 winners)Willie Mullins had his first UK winner. Sits in 109th place with 9 points.
On the prize money list he was yesterday in 37th place.
So far it has. Skelton averages 3.81 points per win. Owen just 2.67 per win as he picked off the early season Class 4 & 5 races.
Henderson in 10th place averages 3.71 per win so not far behind Skelton when it comes to class of winner.
Nicholls averages 3.88 so is outdoing both of them.
The final table for November;
1st Skelton 132 pts
2nd Snowden 76 pts
3rd= Pauling 73 pts
3rd= Tizzard 73 pts
5th= Murphy 66 pts
5th= Nicholls 66 pts
7th Henderson 58 pts
8th Derham 55 pts
9th Parkinson & Smith 43 pts
10th Gordon 39 ptsThe overall leaderboard for the season is as follows;
1st Skelton 297 pts (78 wins)
2nd Murphy 227 pts (69 wins)
3rd Owen 185 pts (67 wins)
4th Snowden 181 pts (53 wins)
5th Nicholls 163 pts (42 wins)
6th Bowen 144 pts (45 wins)
7th O’Brien 130 pts (43 wins)
8th Pauling 124 pts (38 wins)
9th N & W Twiston-Davies 110 pts (35 wins)
10th Henderson 104 pts (28 wins)1639 races and 243 different winning trainers.
Top Irish trainer is Elliott with 48 pts (12 wins) in 27th place.
Thank you VF. Following the sport over many years Mighty Man was in my top 5 of favourite horses. I’m sure he would have won a Gold Cup had he stayed sound.
Henry Daly’s Mighty Man the more than useful staying hurdler jumped fences for the first time aged 9. Won 2 novice chases and then disappeared again. Remarkable he even returned after such a serious injury at Punchestown in 2007.
I know this is a CH thread but does anyone know what became of Mighty Man?
