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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 Colorado Kid (Good) 24 Jun 2016 6m 18.4s 3m 5f 80y Thomas Wild (Good) 30 May 2016 7m 28.2s Distance Horse (Going) Date Winning time 2m 1f 46y Curious Carlos (Good) 27 May 2017 3m 58.2s 2m 6f 31y Midnight Folie (Good) 28 Jun 2019 5m 12.1s 3m 1f 83y Eshtiaal (Good) 28 May 2016 6m 4.5s -
Trainer Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L P Bowen 37 6 £45,591 16.22% -£14.53 D McCain Jnr 22 6 £59,563 27.27% £2.63 Mrs Dianne Sayer 12 3 £13,515 25% -£5.25 B M R Haslam 10 3 £21,313 30% £15.50 C E Longsdon 4 3 £38,539 75% £14.00 Micky Hammond 29 2 £16,374 6.9% -£24.25 Sam Drake 12 2 £8,902 16.67% £9.00 Rebecca Menzies 8 2 £9,552 25% £2.75 W Coltherd 7 2 £8,253 28.57% £3.00 I Jardine 4 2 £16,476 50% £2.75 Trainer Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L D McCain Jnr 65 11 £62,251 16.92% -£27.22 P Bowen 28 8 £79,637 28.57% £35.63 James Moffatt 95 7 £38,470 7.37% -£25.09 Mrs Dianne Sayer 31 5 £25,093 16.13% -£17.75 T Davidson 9 4 £15,466 44.44% £25.25 N C Kelly 12 3 £13,647 25% -£4.45 M Todhunter 8 3 £10,462 37.5% £4.50 Sam Drake 10 3 £11,697 30% £4.25 B M R Haslam 5 3 £11,891 60% £93.00 Micky Hammond 35 2 £11,177 5.71% -£28.13 -
Jockey Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L B S Hughes 40 8 £92,774 20% -£7.63 S Bowen 17 6 £42,017 35.29% £5.22 Henry Brooke 23 4 £25,018 17.39% £12.75 C O'Farrell 16 4 £19,129 25% -£4.25 R P McLernon 15 4 £25,277 26.67% £15.50 Sam Coltherd 17 4 £31,431 23.53% £14.00 R Johnson 14 3 £14,230 21.43% -£1.75 James Bowen 17 2 £11,827 11.76% -£11.75 Adrian Heskin 4 2 £10,267 50% -£0.50 Aidan Coleman 4 2 £10,877 50% £0.42 Jockey Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L B S Hughes 62 18 £78,108 29.03% £10.69 Harry Reed 10 5 £20,080 50% £28.00 R Johnson 21 4 £37,436 19.05% -£5.88 Sean Quinlan 26 4 £22,389 15.38% £5.50 James Bowen 11 3 £34,862 27.27% £27.00 Jonathan England 10 3 £11,697 30% £4.25 R P McLernon 8 3 £11,891 37.5% £90.00 Miss Becky Smith 25 2 £9,227 8% -£15.50 S Bowen 18 2 £19,734 11.11% -£7.13 Lorcan Murtagh 21 2 £19,624 9.52% £2.00
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