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Temp: 4.5° - 7.0°
Rainfall: 2.98mm
Wind: 7.2 mph SW
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.
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 |
Forecast: Moderate showers
Temp: 4.5° - 7.0°
Rainfall: 2.98mm
Wind: 7.2 mph SW
Last Update: 17/01/2021 17:00x
Cartmel Racecourse
Cartmel
Grange-over-Sands
Cumbria
LA11 6QF
01539 536340
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