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Cheltenham
15:40
St. James's Place Festival Challenge Cup Open Hunters' Chase
Cheltenham Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 Distance: 3m2½f Type: Chase Going: Good To Soft Class: Class 2 Surface: Turf
Win: £15 Place: £3.70 £1.70 £3.10 Exacta: £72.60 Tricast: £331.19 Trifecta: £641.40
Previous Runs Pos Horse Notes Age/Sex Status Jockey Trainer Weight SP Beaten By Formline
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1st
Midfield - smooth headway after 16th - going easily when close up 4 out - led narrowly 2 out - soon ridden and faced strong challenge - stayed on run-in - just held on - all out(op 14/1)
N/A Elite
Will Biddick 168 lbs 16/1 Won
2m5f
2m3f 2m2f
2nd
Tracked leaders - pressed leader 11th - led narrowly home turn - headed when not fluent 2 out - soon ridden - kept on well and every chance run-in - just held
12 G Poor
W P Mullins 168 lbs 2/1F 0.1
2m5f 3m½f 3m2½f 3m 3m4½f
2m6½f
3rd
Towards rear of midfield - some headway after 16th - hampered 3 out - soon ridden - went fourth but held before 2 out - stayed on run-in - went third final strides(op 11/1 tchd 17/2)
N/A Elite
E Bolger 168 lbs 9/1 13
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3m2f 3m
4th
Tracked leader - prominent 5th - led 11th - pecked on landing 3 out - soon ridden - headed home turn - stayed on but held from 2 out - no extra when lost third final strides(op 18/1)
11 G AVG
T Ellis 168 lbs 12/1 0.1
2m5f 2m5f 2m5f 3m5½f 3m5½f
3m
5th
Jumped right throughout - midfield - not fluent 6th - ridden after 4 out - well held but stayed on from 2 out(op 22/1 tchd 28/1)
N/A Elite
Mel Rowley 168 lbs 25/1 2.5
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2m4f
6th
Held up in rear - some headway after 16th - ridden after 18th - stumbled 4 out - weakened after 3 out(tchd 40/1)
N/A Poor
Mrs Denise Foster 168 lbs 33/1 21
2m5f 3m2½f
3m1f
7th
Held up in rear - blundered 9th - on outer but headway from 11th - tracked leaders 14th - disputing third 3 out - soon ridden - weakened before 2 out(op 8/1)
N/A Poor
Eugene M O'Sullivan 168 lbs 10/1 1.5
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8th
Tracked leader - led 5th - prominent when headed 11th - mistake 18th - ridden after 4 out - weakened after 3 out(op 33/1 tchd 50/1)
N/A Poor
D J Jeffreys 168 lbs 40/1 8.5
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2m4f
9th
Tracked leaders - lost position after 12th - midfield 13th - blundered 16th - ridden after 18th - weakened before 3 out - tailed off(op 11/1)
N/A Poor
Kelly Morgan 168 lbs 12/1 19
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3m1f
10th
Midfield - dropped to rear 13th - weakened after 16th - tailed off(op 9/1)
N/A Poor
E Bolger 168 lbs 11/1 58
4m2f 3m½f 3m1f 2m5f 3m1f
3m
99th
Always towards rear - weakened after 16th - tailed off when pulled up after 3 out(op 125/1)
N/A Poor
J J O'Shea 168 lbs 150/1 -
2m5f
3m
99th
Jumped left on occasions - midfield - struggling when mistake 4 out - soon weakened - tailed off when pulled up before 2 out(tchd 66/1)
N/A Poor
Mrs Jonjo O'Neill 168 lbs 80/1 -
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99th
Tracked leaders - lost position after 14th - weakening when mistake 16th - soon pulled up(op 40/1)
12 G AVG
Mel Rowley 168 lbs 50/1 -
3m1f 3m 2m4½f 3m1f 2m4f
3m
99th
Led - tracked leader when headed 5th - lost position after 12th - soon behind - tailed off when pulled up before 15th(op 200/1)
N/A Poor
Miss Sarah Rippon 168 lbs 250/1 -
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99th
Didn't jump with fluency - soon raced in last and became detached - pulled up after 6th (jockey said gelding jumped poorly)(op 25/1 tchd 28/1)
11 G Poor
S Loxton 168 lbs 14/1 -
2m6f 2m 2m4f 2m4f 3m
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99th
Tracked leaders - mistake 4th - hampered when midfield 11th - in rear and struggling 13th - tailed off when pulled up 3 out(op 66/1)
12 G Poor
David Kemp 168 lbs 125/1 -
4m½f 4m½f 3m3½f
3m2f
99th
Jumped left on occasions - midfield - not fluent 14th - weakened after 17th - tailed off when pulled up after 3 out(op 28/1)
N/A Poor
Mel Rowley 168 lbs 40/1 -
3m½f 3m
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99th
In touch with leaders - dropped to midfield 7th - headway after 13th - tracked leaders 15th - going okay when stumbled badly and unseated rider 3 out (vet said gelding had blood in its right nostril post-race)(tchd 4/1)
N/A Poor
Paul Nicholls 168 lbs 9/2 -
3m2½f