Schedule / Editor / 06 December 2008 / Leave a comment

11.15am Chris Barnett and Terry Norman are the team for racing from Chepstow, Great Leighs, Wetherby, and Sandown Park, where our feature race of the day will be the 2.35pm Seasons Holiday Tingle Creek Chase.

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Chepstow

Type Jump

First Race 12.25pm

Notable Jockeys

Sam Thomas - 2008 Gold Cup winning rider. Timmy Murphy - 2008 Grand National winning rider. Richard Johnson, 2nd in Jump Jockey Championship and one of only four jockeys to ride over 100 winners in the previous season.

Notable Horses

1.00pm Wichita Lineman is a Grade 1 hurdler and former Cheltenham Festival winner looking to continue a fine start to his chaing career.

2.45pm Inchidaly Rock looked set for the top when an impressive winner on his hurdling debut last time out.

Feature Race

Free Football Bets At Freebets.co.uk Handicap Chase 2.10pm


Great Leighs

Type All Weather Flat

First Race 1.55pm

Notable Jockeys

Jamie Spencer - leading rider in the AW championship title race. Chris Catlin - reigning AW champion rider. Adam Kirby lies 3rd in the AW title race.

Notable Horses

Suits Me goes for a 4th win in a row at 5.00pm.

Feature Race

Foinaven Handicap 3.30pm


Sandown Park

Type Jump

First Race 12.50pm

Notable Jockeys

Tony McCoy - perennial Champion Jump Jockey & leading rider this season. Robert 'Choc' Thornton rode over 100 winners last season & won the 2008 Champion Hurdle. Paddy Brennan - one of only four riders to win over 100 races last season. Graham Lee - top Northern rider. Denis O'Regan, stable jockey to Howard Johnson & owner Graham Wylie.

Notable Horses

Master Minded, who won the Queen Mother Champion Chase so impressively at the Cheltenham Festival earlier this year, makes his seasonal reappearance in the Grade 1 Seasons Holidays Tingle Creek Chase tomorrow.

The five-year-old is trained by the Champion trainer Paul Nicholls, who runs last year's winner Twist Magic and stable companion Takeroc (who was second behind Chomba Womba at Wincanton in the Elite Hurdle at the beginning of last month).

They take on Tidal Bay, who has never been out of the first two in all of his 15 starts and won at both the Cheltenham Festival and the Grand National Meeting at Aintree.

Watch your bets at Sandown with two horses called Free World on the same card - one runs for Carl Llewellyn at 1.25pm with the other representing Paul Nicholls at 2.00pm.

Feature Race

2.35pm Seasons Holiday Tingle Creek Steeplechase, named in honour of one of the greatest two-mile chasers of all time, and part of the British Horseracing Authority's Order of Merit series.

There aren't many two mile chasers up on the leaderboard


Wetherby

Type Jump

First Race 11.40am

Notable Jockeys

Hennessy Gold Cup winning rider - Tom Scudamore. Barry Geraghty - top Irish jockey previous winner of Gold Cup, first season as stable jockey to Nicky Henderson.

Notable Horses

2007 Champion Hurdle winner Sublimity takes on last season's Champion Hurdle third Punjabi in the Fighting Fifth at 1.50pm.

Feature Race

Wbx.com Fighting Fifth Hurdle (Grade 1) 1.50pm, part of the British Horseracing Authority's Order of Merit series.


Wolverhampton

Type All Weather Flat

First Race 6.20pm

Notable Jockeys

Chris Catlin - reigning All Weather Champion rider. William Carson - grandson of former champion jockey Willie Carson. Jack Dean won the Betfair Apprentice Training Series.

Notable Horses

The 7.50pm race sees former Royal Ascot Group race winner The Tatling make his 108th start but only his second on the All Weather surface.

Irish Ballad goes for a hat-trick of wins in a row at 9.20pm, as does Saleron at 6.30pm.

Feature Race

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