15:45 Pontefract 05 Aug 2026
RIU Hotels And Resorts Ladies Day Veterans' Handicap
Class 5 | 6YO plus
Winner £4,187 - 6 run
- Winner
- Top 2 Finish
- W/O Garden Oasis
- Top 3 Finish
- W/O Garden Oasis And Spirit Genie
- Insure 2 Places
- W/O Spirit Genie
- W/O
- Finish Exactly 2nd
- Not To Win
- Top 4 Finish
Verdict
Last year's winner GARDEN OASIS bids to repeat the dose off an 8lb lower mark. Picked off late when runner-up at Ripon last time, Tim Easterby's veteran looks certain to launch another strong challenge. Soames Forsyte struck at Nottingham last summer and arrives here on a dangerous mark, whilst similar can be said of Spirit Genie, who now receives an ease in class.
Expert View Verdict
A weak race where GARDEN OASIS is really the only one who arrives in some sort of form. He's now 8lb below his last winning mark and with an easy lead likely he will be tough to peg back. Alessia Fernanda went too fast last time but is now just 2lb higher than when winning on the AW. She may be the main threat ahead of Soames Forsyte. That rival was also successful on the AW earlier in the year but has been let down by slow starts recently.
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Previous winners
| Year | Going | Ran | Winner | Draw | Age | Weight | OR | Form | Last run | Trainer (Distance) | Jockey | SP | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Good to Firm | 7 | Garden Oasis | 6 | 10 | 9 11 | 80 | 3-41165 | 18 days | T D Easterby (44 miles) | David Allan | 10/ 3 | 1:45.86 |
| 2024 | Good to Firm | 6 | Zozimus | 3 | 6 | 9 4 | 75 | 224645 | 11 days | D O'Meara (51 miles) | David Nolan | 2/ 1 | 1:43.39 |
| 2023 | Good | 11 | Motawaafeq | 4 | 7 | 8 12 | 67 | 0-34471 | 28 days | M Appleby (90 miles) | Andrew Mullen | 18/ 1 | 1:43.32 |
| 2022 | Good to Firm | 8 | Global Spirit | 3 | 7 | 9 9 | 76 | 810662 | 18 days | R Fell & S Murray (53 miles) | Hollie Doyle | 13/ 8 | 1:43.57 |
| 2021 | Soft | 8 | Mikmak | 5 | 8 | 8 2 | 60 | 7-67344 | 20 days | T D Easterby (44 miles) | Duran Fentiman | 15/ 2 | 1:52.42 |
| 2019 | Good | 8 | Tukhoom | 8 | 6 | 9 7 | 79 | 315424 | 5 days | D O'Meara (51 miles) | David Nolan | 4/ 1 | 1:44.28 |
| 2018 | Good to Firm | 7 | Pumaflor | 2 | 6 | 8 2 | 62 | 090035 | 23 days | P A Kirby (62 miles) | Andrew Mullen | 6/ 1 | 1:47.82 |
| 2017 | Soft | 4 | Echo Of Lightning | 8 | 7 | 9 4 | 77 | 26-9813 | 5 days | B Ellison (44 miles) | Ben Robinson | 10/ 3 | 1:46.42 |
| 2016 | Good to Firm | 8 | Ralphy Boy | 2 | 7 | 8 13 | 72 | 378572 | 5 days | A C Whillans (163 miles) | P J McDonald | 11/ 4 | 1:44.64 |
| 2015 | Good | 9 | Ralphy Boy | 1 | 6 | 8 12 | 71 | 989477 | 11 days | A C Whillans (163 miles) | P J McDonald | 9/ 2 | 1:45.75 |
| 2014 | Good to Firm | 8 | Kiwi Bay | 3 | 9 | 9 6 | 79 | 929422 | 4 days | M Dods (71 miles) | Paul Mulrennan | 3/ 1 | 1:42.68 |
| 2013 | Good | 10 | Fazza | 6 | 6 | 8 9 | 68 | 607-597 | 18 days | E W Tuer (53 miles) | James Sullivan | 16/ 1 | 1:45.26 |
| 2012 | Good to Firm | 10 | Woolston Ferry | 3 | 6 | 8 12 | 71 | 341115 | 20 days | H Candy (173 miles) | Martin Harley | 6/ 1 | 1:42.38 |
| 2011 | Good to Firm | 11 | Willow Dancer | 12 | 7 | 9 7 | 80 | 105010 | 35 days | W R Swinburn (170 miles) | E Ahern | 15/ 2 | 1:46.34 |
| 2010 | Good | 8 | Dabbers Ridge | 4 | 8 | 9 4 | 75 | 110313 | 11 days | I W McInnes (53 miles) | Gary Bartley | 5/ 1 | 1:45.51 |
| 2009 | Good | 14 | Exit Smiling | 6 | 7 | 9 8 | 79 | 629232 | 22 days | P T Midgley (40 miles) | Neil Callan | 6/ 1 | 1:45.85 |
| 2008 | Good | 8 | Major Magpie | 7 | 6 | 9 7 | 78 | 1-33736 | 27 days | M Dods (71 miles) | D Holland | 7/ 2 | 1:46.70 |