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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.
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
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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 -
Trainer Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L P Bowen 28 8 £52,302 28.57% £0.47 James Moffatt 42 5 £26,110 11.9% £0.00 D McCain Jnr 29 4 £30,575 13.79% -£19.38 Micky Hammond 31 4 £32,785 12.9% -£13.25 M Todhunter 18 4 £27,216 22.22% -£6.13 S R B Crawford 10 3 £11,047 30% -£4.10 Mrs S J Smith 9 3 £10,397 33.33% £23.00 C E Longsdon 6 3 £38,539 50% £12.00 Mrs Dianne Sayer 13 3 £11,047 23.08% £3.50 R Ford 5 3 £13,924 60% £8.67 Trainer Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L D McCain Jnr 63 13 £72,822 20.63% £6.64 James Moffatt 124 11 £82,907 8.87% -£45.63 P Bowen 22 9 £52,815 40.91% £20.38 Kenneth Slack 16 7 £32,638 43.75% £44.38 G Elliott 13 4 £34,626 30.77% £0.88 M Todhunter 19 3 £8,968 15.79% -£0.50 T Davidson 8 3 £11,177 37.5% £23.50 Julia Brooke 16 3 £9,487 18.75% £3.50 N P Mulholland 13 3 £13,386 23.08% -£4.18 I Jardine 10 3 £9,747 30% -£4.00 -
Jockey Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L B S Hughes 60 14 £98,338 23.33% £2.28 Henry Brooke 39 9 £47,361 23.08% £10.63 Sean Bowen 19 8 £52,302 42.11% £9.47 R Johnson 27 5 £30,683 18.52% -£9.00 Sean Quinlan 19 4 £14,296 21.05% -£1.75 T Scudamore 6 3 £21,349 50% £10.88 Grant Cockburn 5 3 £14,165 60% £18.75 Nathan Moscrop 7 2 £8,187 28.57% £21.50 Aidan Coleman 6 2 £11,926 33.33% £9.50 Miss Becky Smith 8 2 £9,505 25% £1.33 Jockey Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L B S Hughes 82 14 £65,212 17.07% -£25.11 R Johnson 43 7 £54,431 16.28% -£13.55 Henry Brooke 54 7 £43,073 12.96% £2.12 W T Kennedy 18 4 £12,996 22.22% -£1.38 Ross Chapman 16 4 £22,909 25% £2.00 Robert Hogg 12 4 £16,393 33.33% £20.88 Lorcan Murtagh 20 3 £35,264 15% £20.00 Sean Bowen 18 3 £10,592 16.67% -£6.88 Harry Reed 11 3 £11,177 27.27% £20.50 Charlotte Jones 17 3 £32,977 17.65% £14.00
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