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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 Cygnet (Soft) 27 May 2015 6m 49.18s 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 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 41 8 £53,584 19.51% -£13.03 D McCain Jnr 31 5 £55,599 16.13% -£11.38 M Todhunter 19 4 £27,216 21.05% -£6.13 Mrs Dianne Sayer 17 4 £17,414 23.53% -£4.75 Micky Hammond 33 3 £28,886 9.09% -£23.25 S R B Crawford 10 3 £11,047 30% -£4.10 B M R Haslam 9 3 £21,313 33.33% £16.50 Mrs S J Smith 10 3 £10,397 30% £22.00 C E Longsdon 4 3 £38,539 75% £14.00 R Ford 4 3 £13,924 75% £9.67 Trainer Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L James Moffatt 124 14 £94,031 11.29% -£6.72 D McCain Jnr 68 11 £74,512 16.18% -£18.79 P Bowen 30 11 £94,869 36.67% £50.88 Kenneth Slack 11 5 £26,140 45.45% £9.38 Mrs Dianne Sayer 40 4 £19,700 10% -£31.25 N C Kelly 19 4 £16,767 21.05% £1.55 T Davidson 10 4 £15,466 40% £24.25 Sam Drake 13 4 £14,361 30.77% £20.00 M Todhunter 15 3 £10,202 20% -£3.50 N P Mulholland 13 3 £14,751 23.08% -£3.05 -
Jockey Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L B S Hughes 56 11 £106,763 19.64% -£14.98 Henry Brooke 33 8 £50,480 24.24% £18.63 S Bowen 23 8 £50,010 34.78% £4.72 R Johnson 21 5 £26,237 23.81% -£2.00 Sam Coltherd 15 4 £31,431 26.67% £16.00 R P McLernon 16 3 £21,313 18.75% £9.50 C O'Farrell 14 3 £15,165 21.43% -£6.00 Sean Quinlan 13 3 £12,086 23.08% £3.00 Aidan Coleman 5 3 £18,384 60% £10.42 James Bowen 17 2 £11,827 11.76% -£11.75 Jockey Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L B S Hughes 77 18 £88,866 23.38% -£3.63 R Johnson 33 5 £40,685 15.15% -£15.68 Harry Reed 10 5 £20,080 50% £28.00 Charlotte Jones 29 4 £37,266 13.79% £6.00 Ross Chapman 18 4 £22,909 22.22% -£1.00 James Bowen 14 4 £38,111 28.57% £31.00 Robert Hogg 11 4 £16,393 36.36% £21.88 Jonathan England 13 4 £14,361 30.77% £21.00 Henry Brooke 49 3 £8,447 6.12% -£41.38 Sean Quinlan 35 3 £18,880 8.57% -£9.00
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