Tom Dascombe sent the Ron Hodges trained six-year-old to the head of affairs approaching the third last and the combination stuck on gamely in the closing stages to hold Stormy Passage by three lengths. I did think about the Great Yorkshire Chase [at Doncaster] for him next but he might be the sort of horse who needs to run at tracks with big fences.”At Wincanton, Wayward King ploughed through paddyfield conditions to land the Mid Season chase for the second consecutive year. Mary Reveley, the winner’s trainer, said: “He jumped brilliantly out of the ground and ran them ragged. River Lossie was struggling in third while the favourite Strath Royal had been pulled up.
Random Harvest sealed victory with a super leap at the final fence, beating The Last Fling by an easy seven lengths. RANDOM HARVEST put up an immaculate display of jumping at Wetherby yesterday to land the Rowland Meyrick Handicap Chase. The race was depleted by the defection of The Grey Monk (banged joint) and Colonel In Chief (ground unsuitable). Random Harvest led or disputed the lead for much of the extended three- mile journey and, by the time he reached the straight for the final time, only The Last Fling remained a serious rival.

“You’re asking me to talk expertly about a field I’ve never been in,” she said No one in racing will be fooled This lady’s not for turning.. Whether Teeton Mill can climb into such exalted company, Venetia Williams refuses to guess. Just the two of them, circling each other like heavyweight champions It was the last the two saw of each other. See More Business was always struggling and the title had slipped from his grasp by halfway.Perhaps we should have known. As they paraded past the stands, the field was sandwiched by greys; at the front, Desert Orchid, at the back, Teeton Mill.

In between, a tradition gloriously upheld by One Man, another grey. For just a moment in the preliminaries, Teeton Mill joined the defending champion, See More Business, in the paddock. Handicappers are not supposed to humiliate champions like that, let alone seasoned point-to-pointers. The Irishman sneaked a look four from home and another two out, but his rivals were barely visible in the mist and rain which once again spoiled jump racing’s Christmas party.

Long before the winning post, Williamson was standing up in the saddle and brandishing his whip in celebration in a display of flamboyance which might just earn him a gentle rebuke from such an understated trainer.Such was the grey’s dominance, a strange hush settled over Kempton in the wake of victory. Once a flying leap down the back straight had pushed Teeton Mill into the lead, the only danger to Norman Williamson was a bout of loneliness or a twisted neck. There is no mollycoddling.”Teeton Mill barely broke sweat as he spreadeagled a high-class field. Not even Mill House or Arkle, whose illustrious company he joined as winner of the Hennessy and King George, had won that easily. She will train them over five or six furlongs to sharpen them up, but will also pop them out in the field when she feels the horses need that It’s a matter of balance.