13 April 2010 Report: Glamorgan - Ystradowen
by Brian Lee
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ROZNIC: winner of the Members race
Thousands of racegoers flocked to Ystradowen for the rearranged Glamorgan Hunt Point-to-Point and the crowd was one that Chepstow Races - held on the same day - would have died for!
The added attraction of the televising of the Grand National was another good reason to keep punters at home and although they say rearranged meetings are never the same, one couldn't have said that about this meeting.
Tom David, Luke Price and John Mathias won the six races between them, each coming away with a double.
In the three-horse Members race Tom David, riding Brett Lloyd's 12 year-old-ex winning Chaser Roznic, finished some twenty lengths ahead of his younger brother Evan on Phairy Storm. Mr Nemo, ridden by Paul Sheard, the early leader, was pulled up four fences from home.
The young horse Maiden race was won by Luke Price's Heisivorthedriver who came home twelve lengths ahead of Cranemore. The French-bred Quonic, backed from 4-1 to 4-5 favourite, trailed in last of the five finishers under John Mathais.
Luke, 20, from Pontypridd, who paid just £820 for the winner, was back in the winners' enclosure forty minutes or so later after his eight-year-old Frenchfurze Lad had run out an eight lengths winner of the aged Maiden. The long odds on favourite Kimi was pulled up.
In the PPORA Club Members race, Get Off The Table, partnered by John Mathias, and Victor Merlyn, ridden by Robert Llewellyn, jumped the last almost together but it was the former which snatched victory by half-a-length. Liberty Rock, the favourite, was pulled up.
Five runners went to post for the Mixed Open and all five were ridden by male riders. David Evans's eight-year-old bay mare Makena, ridden by John Mathias, jumped the last ahead of Silver Story to win by three lengths.
Jodie Pearn's Florida Hall, a six-year-old bay gelding by Saddler's Hall, romped home a ten lengths winner from Red Watch in the Restricted. Mrs Pearn, from Peterston-super-Ely in the Vale of Glamorgan, bought the horse at the Doncaster Sales last August.
