Racecards
13:20 Catterick
Scorton Selling Handicap Hurdle (Class G)
- 12 Runners
- Distance: 2m
- Going: Good to Soft
- Form 5616PP-
- Age 7
- Weight 11-12
- Trainer A Lockwood
- Jockey A Dobbin
in touch, ridden approaching 3 out, outpaced before next
- Form 0-02210
- Age 4
- Weight 11-10
- Trainer K A Ryan
- Jockey Mr M Seston
led to 4th, remained prominent, ridden and weakened approaching 2 out
Shaffishayes
18- Form U2F-110
- Age 11
- Weight 11-9
- Trainer Mrs M Reveley
- Jockey A Dempsey
towards rear, pushed along approaching 3 out, soon ridden and outpaced
- Form 600-32U
- Age 7
- Weight 11-8
behind, weakened halfway, tailed off when pulled up before 2 out
Ball Games
61- Form 53-0042
- Age 5
- Weight 11-5
- Trainer James Moffatt
- Jockey Jim Crowley
towards rear, mistake 2nd, weakened halfway, tailed off when pulled up before 2 out
- Form P256F-0
- Age 8
- Weight 10-11
- Trainer J Hetherton
- Jockey G Lee
in touch, headway 3rd, led 4th, headed 3 out, kept on one pace next
- Form 0-00050
- Age 4
- Weight 10-10
held up in touch, headway halfway, led 3 out, not fluent last, ridden out
- Form 00U0
- Age 5
- Weight 10-9
chased leaders to halfway, soon behind
- Form 0P-P565
- Age 4
- Weight 10-7
- Trainer E Tuer
- Jockey B P Harding
held up in mid-division, headway halfway, went 2nd 3 out, challenged next, no extra flat
Spring Gift
17- Form F/P0
- Age 6
- Weight 10-1
- Trainer D Thompson
- Jockey D McGann
chased leaders, ridden and weakened approaching 3 out
- Form 000006/
- Age 8
- Weight 10-0
held up towards rear, headway under pressure after 3 out, ridden and effort 2 out, kept on to chase winner flat
- Form PF-4P
- Age 4
- Weight 10-0
- Trainer Frank Kirby
- Jockey K Johnson
held up in rear, headway halfway, chasing leaders 3 out, soon ridden, weakened before next
In depth
Verdict
Some real characters are assembled here and the market will be a good guide towards which horses have been showing a little sparkle at home. However, Shaffishayes is capable of figuring strongly in a race of this nature and he is taken to edge his trainer on her way towards her goal before retirement. Ball Games, MillKom Elegance and Lady Stratergem will not make it easy for Mary Reveley's inmate though, and this could go right down to the wire. That said Shaffishayes is a good battler at his own level and, as the most experienced horse in the race, he can teach his younger rivals a thing or two if it boils down to a scrap for the line. Ball Games has put in a couple of good efforts of late and is fancied as the main danger to the rest should Shaffishayes suffer any mishaps on the way round.