Chepstow
13:40
Go Racing With Vickers.Bet Handicap Chase
Chepstow Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2023 Distance: 2m3½f Type: Chase Going: Soft Class: Class 4 Surface: Turf
Win: £4.50 Place: £2 £1.30 Exacta: £10.80 Trifecta: £53.20
Pos No. Horse Notes Age/Sex Status Jockey Trainer Weight SP Beaten By Comment
1st 2 Moonlighter (GB) 10 G Poor Kim Bailey 169 lbs 7/2 Won Made virtually all - pushed along before 3 out - ridden before 2 out - hard pressed and briefly headed run-in - soon battled back - kept on strongly final 110yds - gamely(tchd 4/1)
2nd 6 Good Work (FR) 9 G Poor Oliver Greenall & Josh Guerriero 155 lbs 7/4F .75 Midfield - not fluent 9th - headway home turn - not fluent 5 out - ridden before 4 out - chased leader before 3 out - not fluent 3 out - rallied approaching last - made challenge and briefly led run-in - kept on final 110yds - no extra towards finish(op 13/8)
3rd 3 Ballinsker (IRE) 6 G Poor Evan Williams 162 lbs 14/1 5 Midfield - chased leader 5th - slow jump and lost second 4 out - soon pushed along and outpaced - held before 2 out - kept on approaching last - ridden and no impression run-in (jockey said gelding hung left-handed in the home straight)(op 11/1)
4th 5 Do It For Thy Sen (IRE) 9 G Good Kerry Lee 156 lbs 8/1 14 Towards rear - some headway when mistake 8th - pushed along and not fluent 10th - no impression when mistake 4 out - well held 3 out - kept on from 2 out(op 11/2)
5th 1 Duc De Beauchene (FR) 11 G AVG David Pipe 169 lbs 9/2 4.5 Held up in rear - headway into midfield 5th - bad mistake 7th - dropped to rear and pushed along home turn - lost touch 5 out - kept on but no impression from 3 out(op 5/1 tchd 4/1)
99th 4 Buckhorn George (GB) 5 G Poor Joe Tizzard 160 lbs 6/1 - Prominent - dropped to midfield 5th - soon lost position and ridden - raced in last and looked reluctant 6th - slow jump and lost touch 7th - tailed off when pulled up before 9th (trainer could offer no explanation for the poor form shown; vet reported that a post-race examination failed to reveal any abnormalities)(op 15/2 tchd 17/2)