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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 Midnight Folie (Good) 28 Jun 2019 5m 12.1s 3m 1f 83y Eshtiaal (Good) 28 May 2016 6m 4.5s 3m 2f Teak (Good) 25 Aug 2014 6m 17.2s -
Trainer Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L P Bowen 34 8 £52,302 23.53% -£4.53 D McCain Jnr 28 5 £55,599 17.86% -£9.38 M Todhunter 18 4 £27,216 22.22% -£6.13 Micky Hammond 33 3 £28,886 9.09% -£20.25 S R B Crawford 10 3 £11,047 30% -£4.10 Mrs S J Smith 10 3 £10,397 30% £22.00 Mrs Dianne Sayer 13 3 £12,736 23.08% -£1.50 C E Longsdon 4 3 £38,539 75% £14.00 R Ford 4 3 £13,924 75% £9.67 James Moffatt 36 2 £10,805 5.56% -£25.50 Trainer Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L D McCain Jnr 68 15 £86,858 22.06% £5.59 James Moffatt 118 12 £79,363 10.17% -£31.63 P Bowen 26 10 £79,229 38.46% £45.88 Kenneth Slack 11 5 £26,140 45.45% £9.38 M Todhunter 17 3 £9,162 17.65% -£4.00 T Davidson 8 3 £11,177 37.5% £23.50 N P Mulholland 13 3 £13,386 23.08% -£4.18 I Jardine 10 3 £9,747 30% -£3.00 Micky Hammond 32 2 £11,177 6.25% -£25.13 Mrs Dianne Sayer 42 2 £7,549 4.76% -£40.75 -
Jockey Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L B S Hughes 54 12 £110,662 22.22% -£7.98 S Bowen 20 8 £52,302 40% £8.47 Henry Brooke 31 6 £41,252 19.35% £12.38 R Johnson 22 4 £21,299 18.18% -£7.50 Aidan Coleman 8 4 £22,803 50% £11.92 R P McLernon 14 3 £15,725 21.43% £22.00 Sean Quinlan 13 3 £12,086 23.08% £3.00 T Scudamore 7 3 £21,349 42.86% £9.88 Miss Becky Smith 12 2 £9,505 16.67% -£2.67 Nathan Moscrop 7 2 £8,187 28.57% £21.50 Jockey Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L B S Hughes 79 17 £84,317 21.52% -£7.54 R Johnson 34 5 £40,685 14.71% -£19.43 Henry Brooke 47 4 £11,046 8.51% -£34.38 Ross Chapman 17 4 £22,909 23.53% £0.00 Robert Hogg 12 4 £16,393 33.33% £20.88 Sean Quinlan 38 3 £18,880 7.89% -£12.00 Lorcan Murtagh 23 3 £35,264 13.04% £16.00 Charlotte Jones 23 3 £32,977 13.04% £7.00 W T Kennedy 17 3 £9,747 17.65% -£3.38 James Bowen 12 3 £33,562 25% £31.00
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Cartmel Racecourse
Cartmel
Grange-over-Sands
Cumbria
LA11 6QF
01539 536340
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