CANNINGTON
BROOK OUT TO MAINTAIN PERFECT HAYDOCK PARK RECORD IN £200,000 CONTEST
A top-class field of six
goes forward for the £200,000 Grade One Betfair Chase (3.05pm) over three miles
at Haydock Park this Saturday, November 24, day two of the Betfair Chase
Festival.
The field is headed by
Nicky Henderson's Long Run, who took the National Hunt sphere by storm
two seasons ago with brilliant victories in the King George VI Chase and the
Cheltenham Gold Cup under his amateur pilot Sam Waley-Cohen.
The seven-year-old failed
to scale those heights last season when finding a resurgent Kauto Star too
strong in both the Betfair Chase and the King George VI Chase and rounded off
his campaign with a third-place finish in the Cheltenham Gold Cup.
The Giant Bolster is the apple of David
Bridgwater's eye and he justified his trainer's belief in him with a 17-length
win at Cheltenham in January and a career best effort in the Cheltenham Gold
Cup, when finishing second.
Champion trainer Paul
Nicholls has made a flying start to the new season and will saddle exciting
six-year-old Silviniaco Conti. A leading novice chaser last season, the
son of Dom Alco made a pleasing return to action with an emphatic 11-length win
in the Grade Two Charlie Hall Chase at Wetherby on November 3.
Cannington Brook, trained by Colin
Tizzard, is unbeaten around Haydock and his latest outing at the north west
track resulted in a 35-length demolition of his rivals in February. He came
home sixth on his seasonal reappearance at Ascot on November 3, after
encountering trouble in running.
Tizzard said this morning:
"I hope it rains at Haydock between now and Saturday and then Cannington
Brook will make them all go.
"He came out of his
run at Ascot fine. He got knocked over three out and he never had a hard race
at all.
"He is 30lb wrong
with the others but he loves heavy ground and is unbeaten around Haydock. That
is the only reason we are taking these horses on because of the way he can
handle that Haydock heavy - we wouldn't take them on anywhere else.
"I hope there is a
bit more improvement to come from him as he needs to improve 20lb to place on
Saturday, but the ground will help him."
Last year's third Weird
Al, who is a dual Grade Two winner over fences,is set to make his seasonal
reappearance for Donald McCain, while Hilary Parrott's Charlie Hall Chase
runner-up Wayward Prince completes the line up.
To win the Betfair Chase -
Betfair bet (Fixed Odds): 5/4 Long Run, 5/2 Silviniaco Conti, 6/1 The Giant Bolster, Weird
Al, 16/1 Cannington Brook, 33/1 Wayward Prince
16 FOR
BETFAIR. DON'T SETTLE FOR LESS "FIXED BRUSH" HANDICAP HURDLE
The £80,000 Betfair. Don't
Settle For Less "Fixed Brush" Handicap Hurdle (2.30pm), which takes
place over three miles at Haydock Park on Saturday, has attracted 16 runners.
Three horses share top
weight of 11st 12lb - recent Wetherby scorer Trustan Times, Cheltenham
Festival winner Son Of Flicka and Sunnyhillboy, who was last seen
out when the nose runner-up in the John Smith's Grand National at Aintree in
April.
David Pipe has won the
past two renewals of the race with Grands Crus (2010) and Dynaste (2011) and
this time round has two representatives - Katkeau and Knight Pass.
Katkeau, the current
market leader with Betfair, will be making his British debut but is a very
useful performer and last ran when scoring by 15 lengths at Auteuil in June.
Knight Pass, a promising performer for his previous trainer Warren Greatrex,
also makes his first appearance for Pipe.
Tom George tasted victory
in a valuable handicap hurdle at Cheltenham last weekend with Olofi and has a
leading chance to bag another major success on Saturday with Sivola de
Sivola, who shaped promisingly when fourth on his seasonal return at
Cheltenham last month.
Saphir River was Grade One-placed in
France and caught the eye with an impressive victory at Uttoxeter on November 2
for Scottish handler Lucinda Russell.
To win the Betfair Fixed
Brush Hurdle - Betfair bet (Fixed Odds): 9/2 Katkeau, 6/1 Sivola de Sivola, 8/1
Knight Pass, Saphir River, 10/1 Holywell, Mr Moonshine, 11/1 Barafundle,
American Spin, 16/1 Trustan Times, 20/1 Katenko, Lackamon, 25/1 Mad Moose, 28/1
Sunnyhillboy, Son Of Flicka, 33/1 Arctic Court, 40/1 Los Nadis
GOING
The going at Haydock Park
remains:
SOFT
Kirkland Tellwright, Clerk
of the Course at Haydock Park, reported today: "There was two millimetres
of rain in the gauge this morning and the forecast is for us to receive up to
12 millimetres today.
"We are taking it one
step at a time, with the current forecast indicating three millimetres of rain
tomorrow (Friday) and then a largely dry day on Saturday."
The Betfair Chase Festival
gets underway tomorrow, Friday, November 23, with a seven-race card beginning
at 12.45pm.
Betfair ambassadors Paul
Nicholls and Donald McCain will be exclusively detailing the chances of all
their runners at the two-day meeting at Haydock on www.betfair.com/paulnicholls and www.betfair.com/donaldmccain on Friday and
Saturday.
THE
BETFAIR CHASE
Class 1,
Grade 1, £200,000 Total Prize Fund. 3.05pm, Haydock Park, Saturday,
November 24, 2012. For five-year-olds & upwards, three miles. Weights: 11st
7lb. Allowances: mares, 7lb. Entries closed November 6, entries revealed
November 7 (19 entries). Five-day confirmation & £10,000 supplementary
entry stage Monday, November 19 (9 confirmations). Final declaration stage,
10.00am (6 runners), Thursday, November 22. Form figures supplied by
Weatherbys and are correct up to and including the racing of Wednesday,
November 21.
Form
Horse Age/Wt Owner Trainer
1) 15105-6 CANNINGTON
BROOK (IRE) 8-11-07 Sara Biggins & Celia Djivanovic Colin Tizzard/Joe
Tizzard
2) 11/2213-
LONG RUN (FR) 7-11-07 Robert Waley-Cohen Nicky
Henderson/Mr Sam Waley-Cohen
3) 31241-1 SILVINIACO
CONTI (FR) 6-11-07 Chris Giles & Potensis Limited Paul Nicholls/Ruby
Walsh
4) U02142- THE
GIANT BOLSTER 7-11-07 Simon
Hunt
David Bridgwater/Tom Scudamore
5) 4/P40P-2
WAYWARD PRINCE 8-11-07 John & Hilary Parrott Hilary
Parrott/Jack Doyle
6) 0P/13PF-
WEIRD AL (IRE) 9-11-07 Brannon Dick Holden Donald
McCain/Jason Maguire
6 runners
THE
BETFAIR. DON'T SETTLE FOR LESS "FIXED BRUSH" HANDICAP HURDLE
Class 1,
Grade 3, £80,000 Total Prize Fund. 2.30pm, Haydock Park, Saturday,
November 24, 2012. For four-year-olds & upwards, three miles.: Entries
closed November 6, entries revealed November 7 (50 entries), weights revealed
November 14. Penalties: after November 11, a winner of a hurdle 5lb. Five-day
confirmation stage Monday, November 19 (24 confirmations). Final declaration
stage, 10.00am, Thursday, November 22 (16 runners). Form figures
supplied by Weatherbys and are correct up to and including the racing of
Wednesday, November 21.
Form
Horse Age/Wgt Owner Trainer
1) 33236-1 TRUSTAN
TIMES (IRE) 6-11-12 Mrs M E & Peter Armitage Tim Easterby/Dougie
Costello
2) 0001F-0 SON
OF FLICKA 8-11-12 Twenty Four Seven Recruitment Donald McCain/Jason Maguire
3) 30P012- SUNNYHILLBOY
(IRE) 9-11-12 J P McManus Jonjo O'Neill/Mr Alan Berry (3)
4) 23P2-10 AMERICAN
SPIN 8-11-11 G Collacott & R Gadd Luke Dace/Jamie Moore
5) 0001-R3 MAD
MOOSE (IRE) 8-11-10 Middleham Park Racing XXXV & Partner Nigel
Twiston-Davies/Sam Twiston-Davies
6) 32U4-P1 SAPHIR
RIVER (FR) 6-11-09 Sandy Seymour Lucinda Russell/Peter Buchanan
7) 3500-23 MR
MOONSHINE (IRE) 8-11-09 Sue Smith Sue Smith/Ryan Mania
8)
10/2210/- BARAFUNDLE (IRE) 8-11-03 Judith Ratcliff Jennie
Candlish/Sean Quinlan
9) 1316P0- KNIGHT
PASS (IRE) 6-11-02 Malcolm Denmark David Pipe/
10) 15140-4 SIVOLA
DE SIVOLA (FR) 6-11-02 D O'Donohoe, S & P Nelson & D Silvester Tom
George/Paddy Brennan
11) 31-22 HOLYWELL
(IRE) 5-11-00 Gay Smith Jonjo O'Neill/Richie McLernon
12) 3232-00
LOS NADIS (GER) 8-11-00 Ian Dalgleish Jim Goldie/Henry
Brooke (3)
13) 44620-0 ARCTIC
COURT (IRE) 8-11-00 Ray & Anita Anderson Green Jim Goldie/Timmy Murphy
14) P312-33 LACKAMON
7-11-00 Sue Smith Sue Smith/Jonathan England (7)
15) 2P004-F KATENKO
(FR) 6-10-13 A Brooks Venetia Williams/Aidan Coleman
16) F0-2321 KATKEAU
(FR) 5-10-08 Prof C Tisdall, J A Gent, R Wilkin David Pipe/
16
runners
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