Cartmel Course Guide

Cartmel hosts racing throughout the summer months with the majority of its meetings taking place over bank holiday weekends. The showpiece race of the season is the three mile and six furlong Grand Veterans’ Chase, which is staged on the second May Bank Holiday each year.

Situated in the south of the Lake District, Cartmel is unashamedly a holiday track and the relaxed atmosphere adds to its character. As a consequence the course remains extremely popular with racegoers regularly attracting crowds in excess of 10,000 spectators.

Jumps Racing

Left handed, tight. Only six fences to a circuit places little emphasis on jumping, though they are fairly stiff for a minor course and result in a disproportionate number of unseats to falls, particularly over the last few fences which come in quick succession as the field are quickening. Run-in of half a mile from the last fence is longest in the country and, unsurprisingly, the lead changes hands from the last more than would normally be expected, be it due to idling or tiring after being sent for home too soon.

Cartmel is not a place you should be going to if you don’t like the smell of barbecues! It’s amazing how many times on the way round you get a flash of something cooking in your nostrils and that, above all else, is my defining memory of riding there. Being as it’s such a tight track, you need a horse that travels, because they go very quick, and if your mount is under pressure early at Cartmel, it can be a long, long way round. That said, the obstacles - both the hurdles and fences - are very fair.

View from the saddle: Mick Fitzgerald

Cartmel Top Times
Last 5 years

Chase
Hurdle

Distance	Horse (Going)	Date	Winning time
2m 1f 61y	Altruism (Good)	28 May 2016	4m 5.8s
2m 5f 34y	Princeton Royale (Good)	24 Jun 2016	5m 5.2s
3m 1f 107y	Morning Royalty (Good)	26 Jun 2015	6m 16.3s
3m 2f	St Gregory (Good)	19 Jul 2014	6m 23.4s
3m 5f 80y	Thomas Wild (Good)	30 May 2016	7m 28.2s
3m 6f	Tullamore Dew (Good to Soft)	25 May 2015	7m 34.4s

Distance	Horse (Going)	Date	Winning time
2m 1f 46y	Curious Carlos (Good)	27 May 2017	3m 58.2s
2m 6f 31y	Minotaur (Good)	27 May 2017	5m 13.5s
3m 1f 83y	Eshtiaal (Good)	28 May 2016	6m 4.5s
3m 2f	Welsh Bard (Good to Firm)	24 May 2014	6m 14.4s

Cartmel Top Trainers
Last 3 years (ordered by number of winners)

Chase
Hurdle

Trainer	Runners	Wins	Places	Prize Money	Strike-Rate	P/L
P Bowen	28	8	8	£52,302	28.57%	£0.47
James Moffatt	42	5	20	£26,110	11.9%	£0.00
D McCain Jnr	29	4	18	£30,575	13.79%	-£19.38
Micky Hammond	31	4	12	£32,785	12.9%	-£13.25
M Todhunter	18	4	8	£27,216	22.22%	-£6.13
S R B Crawford	10	3	3	£11,047	30%	-£4.10
Mrs S J Smith	9	3	3	£10,397	33.33%	£23.00
C E Longsdon	6	3	3	£38,539	50%	£12.00
Mrs Dianne Sayer	13	3	1	£11,047	23.08%	£3.50
R Ford	5	3	0	£13,924	60%	£8.67

Trainer	Runners	Wins	Places	Prize Money	Strike-Rate	P/L
D McCain Jnr	63	13	29	£72,822	20.63%	£6.64
James Moffatt	124	11	50	£82,907	8.87%	-£45.63
P Bowen	22	9	6	£52,815	40.91%	£20.38
Kenneth Slack	16	7	2	£32,638	43.75%	£44.38
G Elliott	13	4	7	£34,626	30.77%	£0.88
M Todhunter	19	3	8	£8,968	15.79%	-£0.50
T Davidson	8	3	5	£11,177	37.5%	£23.50
Julia Brooke	16	3	4	£9,487	18.75%	£3.50
N P Mulholland	13	3	4	£13,386	23.08%	-£4.18
I Jardine	10	3	4	£9,747	30%	-£4.00

Cartmel Top Jockeys
Last 3 years (ordered by number of winners)

Chase
Hurdle

Jockey	Runners	Wins	Places	Prize Money	Strike-Rate	P/L
B S Hughes	60	14	26	£98,338	23.33%	£2.28
Henry Brooke	39	9	14	£47,361	23.08%	£10.63
S Bowen	19	8	4	£52,302	42.11%	£9.47
R Johnson	27	5	12	£30,683	18.52%	-£9.00
Sean Quinlan	19	4	5	£14,296	21.05%	-£1.75
T Scudamore	6	3	2	£21,349	50%	£10.88
Grant Cockburn	5	3	0	£14,165	60%	£18.75
Nathan Moscrop	7	2	4	£8,187	28.57%	£21.50
Aidan Coleman	6	2	4	£11,926	33.33%	£9.50
Miss Becky Smith	8	2	2	£9,505	25%	£1.33

Jockey	Runners	Wins	Places	Prize Money	Strike-Rate	P/L
B S Hughes	82	14	37	£65,212	17.07%	-£25.11
R Johnson	43	7	23	£54,431	16.28%	-£13.55
Henry Brooke	54	7	12	£43,073	12.96%	£2.12
W T Kennedy	18	4	6	£12,996	22.22%	-£1.38
Ross Chapman	16	4	6	£22,909	25%	£2.00
Robert Hogg	12	4	4	£16,393	33.33%	£20.88
Lorcan Murtagh	20	3	9	£35,264	15%	£20.00
S Bowen	18	3	7	£10,592	16.67%	-£6.88
Harry Reed	11	3	6	£11,177	27.27%	£20.50
Charlotte Jones	17	3	4	£32,977	17.65%	£14.00