Doncaster: ground is expected to ride soft for Racing Post Trophy card
PICTURE: Edward Whitaker (racingpost.com/photos), BY TOM O’RYAN6:00PM 24 OCT 2014
DONCASTER clerk of the course Roderick Duncan does not anticipate changing the going from the official description of soft for Saturday’s Racing Post Trophy card, with no rain forecast.
The going was altered to soft (from good to soft on the straight course and good to soft, soft in places on the round course), during racing on Friday, and Duncan defended his decision to only amend it after the fifth race, despite jockeys being of the opinion it was riding soft as early as the first race.
RACING POST TROPHY (Group 1) (Entire Colts & Fillies)(CLASS 1) (2yo)
- Winner: £122,494, Runners: 8, Distance: 1m Str, Going: Soft
£216,000 guaranteed For 2yo entire colts and fillies Weights colts 9st 1lb; fillies 8st 12lb Entries 106 pay £ 500 Confirmed 13 Penalty value 1st £122,494.00 2nd £46,440.00 3rd £23,242.00 4th £11,578.00 5th£5,810.00 6th £2,916.00
| NO.DRAW FORM |
HORSE | AGE | WGT OR |
JOCKEY TRAINER RTF% |
TS | RPR | ODDS | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1621 |  |
ALOFT
 21 |
2 |
9-1
—
|
58 | 94 | ||
| 2711 |  |
CELESTIAL PATH
49 |
2 |
9-1
—
|
94 | 121 | ||
| 3812034 |  |
COCK OF THE NORTH
 56 |
2 |
9-1
102
|
97 | 115 | ||
| 433111 |  |
ELM PARK
28 |
2 |
9-1
111
|
110 | 124 | ||
| 512 |  |
JACOBEAN
 13 |
2 |
9-1
—
|
98 | 99 | ||
| 62132 |  |
RESTORER
14 |
2 |
9-1
101
|
105 | 116 | ||
| 75711 |  |
SNOANO
36 |
2 |
9-1
100
|
101 | 112 | ||
| 841225 |  |
TUPI
57
|
2 |
9-1
102
|
84 | 115 | ||
“Maybe I should have changed it earlier, but it clearly walked better than it rode,” Duncan said.
“If it has been a jumps meeting, I would have been tempted to call it good ground, the way it walked. The first four races were for two-year-olds and the jockeys said that it got softer as it was opened-up, so I changed after the old horses had run in the sprint handicap.”
Assessing the conditions for Saturday, Duncan added: “Even though no more rain is forecast, I don’t expect it to dry out much, so soft will be the description for Racing Post Trophy day.”
Dry conditions will be in Celestial Path’s favour, with Sir Mark Prescott debating whether to let his unbeaten juvenile run in the Racing Post Trophy.
Prescott said: “It depends what the ground is. He will run if I possibly could run him but if it is very soft I shan’t run. There are lots of horses on the improve but at the moment he should be thereabouts if we can run him.”
fonte: RacingPost
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