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Huntingdon Course Guide
Jumping action takes place throughout the year at Huntington with the highlight of its calendar being the Grade 2 Peterborough Chase.
Henrietta Knight dominated the extended two mile and four furlong race around the turn of the century, winning it an astonishing eight times. Gold Cup hero Best Mate won the race in 2002, while Edredon Bleu won the contest a remarkable four times in a row, starting in 1998. Impek won the 2005 renewal while Racing Demon took the contest in both 2006 and 2007.
Formerly ran on a Saturday in November, the race was switched to midweek in December in 2008 because of clashes with other big race meetings and dwindling fields, and a decision was made in 2009 to give the contest a permanent December midweek slot.
The course is right-handed, oval with easy bends, and is a flat, fast track about one-and-a-half miles in length. There are nine fences to a circuit, some of them rather tricky, and the water jump was filled in during summer 2008, astroturf replacing the water. It favours horses with speed over stamina, sluggards seen to best advantage only under extremely testing conditions.
You see a lot of good horses running at Huntingdon, especially classy types off the Flat, and that’s partly because it’s level, also because it’s close to Newmarket and not least because they put on some super races, from inviting novice hurdles through to the Peterborough Chase. It’s a very speedy track, but beautifully maintained with nice fences. Ideally, you want a horse that’s fast over the obstacles. You need to travel well to win there - and big, National Hunt types are definitely at a disadvantage.
View from the saddle: Mick Fitzgerald
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Distance Horse (Going) Date Winning time 2m 104y Hammersly Lake (Good) 28 Apr 2017 3m 52.73s 2m 3f 189y Mille Nautique (Good) 30 May 2016 4m 47.6s 2m 7f 129y Bags Groove (Good to Soft) 09 Dec 2018 5m 6.7s 3m 6f 162y Little Bruce (Good) 03 Mar 2019 8m 17.3s Distance Horse (Going) Date Winning time 1m 7f 171y Excellent Result (Good) 02 Oct 2016 3m 37s 2m 3f 137y Akkapenko (Good) 02 Oct 2019 4m 34.1s 2m 4f 145y The Tailgater (Good) 17 May 2016 4m 55.4s 3m 1f 10y Midnight Aurora (Good) 02 Oct 2019 5m 51.6s Distance Horse (Going) Date Winning time 1m 5f 148y Lovely Lou Lou (Good) 02 Oct 2019 3m 2.8s 1m 7f 171y Cresswell Legend (Good) 03 Apr 2017 3m 39.9s -
Trainer Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L N J Henderson 11 5 £64,959 45.45% -£2.59 K C Bailey 22 4 £59,112 18.18% -£6.88 J R Cornwall 20 4 £15,271 20% £62.00 F O'Brien 10 4 £18,976 40% £11.83 N J Gifford 9 4 £21,770 44.44% £6.13 C E Longsdon 26 3 £14,037 11.54% -£7.50 A King 12 3 £31,190 25% £32.00 Miss V Williams 16 3 £17,870 18.75% -£10.09 Mrs Caroline Bailey 13 3 £19,495 23.08% £20.00 Miss Kerry Lee 8 3 £55,383 37.5% £15.50 Trainer Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L D Skelton 68 13 £59,459 19.12% -£9.97 N J Henderson 38 10 £54,645 26.32% -£8.38 Jonjo O'Neill 50 10 £54,259 20% £18.71 F O'Brien 26 8 £30,867 30.77% £14.13 K C Bailey 37 7 £41,258 18.92% -£2.43 Ben Pauling 48 6 £26,643 12.5% -£21.18 Stuart Edmunds 23 6 £28,267 26.09% £0.57 Olly Murphy 26 6 £25,148 23.08% -£8.77 G P Mcpherson 27 5 £22,288 18.52% £24.50 Mrs L Wadham 19 5 £33,835 26.32% £9.71 Trainer Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L Olly Murphy 7 4 £9,217 57.14% £2.92 D Skelton 15 3 £6,497 20% -£2.88 N J Henderson 13 2 £13,339 15.38% -£10.42 H Whittington 6 2 £4,548 33.33% £2.73 A J Honeyball 3 2 £13,664 66.67% £5.75 K C Bailey 11 1 £2,274 9.09% -£7.50 N A Twiston-Davies 7 1 £2,274 14.29% -£4.90 N B King 7 1 £2,924 14.29% -£4.00 P A Kirby 3 1 £2,274 33.33% -£1.88 P J Hobbs 5 1 £2,274 20% -£1.75 -
Jockey Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L David Bass 15 5 £29,891 33.33% £9.10 Benjamin Poste 17 5 £22,093 29.41% £36.33 Sam Twiston-Davies 15 5 £37,465 33.33% £13.35 S Bowen 19 4 £22,744 21.05% £2.13 Tom Cannon 9 4 £36,064 44.44% £37.63 J M Davies 10 4 £20,210 40% £8.50 D A Jacob 10 4 £59,437 40% £11.49 P J Brennan 14 3 £17,221 21.43% -£1.80 Paul O'Brien 13 3 £14,037 23.08% £6.50 Patrick Cowley 9 3 £11,372 33.33% £47.00 Jockey Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L P J Brennan 41 11 £44,448 26.83% £30.88 Nico de Boinville 39 11 £57,245 28.21% -£5.29 Harry Skelton 51 10 £45,488 19.61% -£1.72 R Johnson 27 9 £50,526 33.33% £23.21 Kielan Woods 41 7 £31,711 17.07% £18.50 C Gethings 38 7 £31,516 18.42% -£12.23 Jonjo O'Neill Jr. 23 6 £32,816 26.09% £1.08 Jack Quinlan 67 5 £21,120 7.46% -£29.00 David Bass 36 5 £33,460 13.89% -£12.43 T J O'Brien 39 4 £16,571 10.26% -£24.25 Jockey Runners Wins Prize Money Strike-Rate P/L Fergus Gregory 6 3 £6,943 50% £1.42 B S Hughes 7 2 £4,223 28.57% £13.00 Harry Skelton 7 2 £4,223 28.57% £2.75 T J O'Brien 7 2 £4,548 28.57% £2.25 Aidan Coleman 7 2 £4,548 28.57% £28.00 T Scudamore 3 2 £4,548 66.67% £1.08 Rex Dingle 2 2 £5,198 100% £4.25 G Sheehan 9 1 £2,274 11.11% -£7.27 C Gethings 9 1 £1,949 11.11% -£1.50 David Bass 9 1 £2,274 11.11% -£4.50
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