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BGC Long Walk Hurdle 2009 |
BGC Long Walk Hurdle Attracts Star Studded Cast
03/12/09
Ascot stages the £100,000 Grade One BGC Long Walk Hurdle on Saturday, December 19. Run over three miles and a furlong, it boasts an illustrious roll of honour with many of the great staying hurdlers having prevailed down the years.
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The Paul Nicholls-trained Big Buck’s was the leading staying hurdler last season, following his victory in the Ladbrokes World Hurdle at Cheltenham and could not have been more impressive on his seasonal reappearance at Newbury on November 28 while the young pretender to the staying hurdlers’ crown, Diamond Harry, a facile winner under top-weight in a Listed handicap at Haydock Park last month, has been entered by Nick Williams.
Former Champion Hurdle winner Katchit could make the step up in distance to the staying division while Cheltenham Festival handicap scorers Kayf Aramis and Ninetieth Minute may bid to make the step up to Grade One class.
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Sentry Duty was successful at this meeting last year when taking The Ladbroke and could also take a leap up in both class and distance.
The mare Whiteoak, trained by Donald McCain, is another former Cheltenham Festival scorer and looked back to something like her best when successful at Kempton on November 23.
THE BGC LONG WALK HURDLE
Class 1, Grade 1, £100,000 Total Prize Fund. 2.05pm, Ascot, Saturday, December 19, 2009. For 4yo+ . Three miles about one furlong. Weights 11st 7lb, fillies and mares allowed 7lb. Entries closed December 1, entries revealed December 2 (16 entries), five-day confirmation stage December 14, final 48-hour declaration stage 10.00am, December 17. Form figures supplied by Weatherbys and are correct up to and including the racing of Monday, November 30.
Form Horse Age Owner Trainer
122P-4P BALLYFITZ 9 F J Mills & W Mills Nigel Twiston-Davies
U1111-1 BIG BUCK'S (FR) 6 The Stewart Family Paul Nicholls
11113-1 DIAMOND HARRY 6 Paul Duffy Diamond Partnership Nick Williams
1303-01 FAIR ALONG (GER) 7 Alan Peterson Philip Hobbs
21124-2 KARABAK (FR) 6 J P McManus Alan King
23460-4 KATCHIT (IRE) 6 D S J P Syndicate Alan King
11P2-36 KAYF ARAMIS 7 Isobel Phipps Coltman Nigel Twiston-Davies
212125/- KRUGUYROVA (FR) 6 Ronald Brimacombe Charles Egerton
100-452 LOUGH DERG (FR) 9 W Frewen David Pipe
121P//52- MIGHTY MAN (FR) 9 E R Hanbury Henry Daly
45111-3 NINETIETH MINUTE (IRE) 6 D Cox Tom Taaffe IRE
61-021F OSCAR DAN DAN (IRE) 7 Mrs Paul Duffin/D Hutton/Sean Corby Thomas Mullins IRE
00/1100- SENTRY DUTY (FR) 7 Peter Spiller Nicky Henderson
1/22400- SWEETHEART 5 Ron Huggins Jamie Poulton
0/P/3101- VIPER 7 Geoff Lloyd Reg Hollinshead
2/206-31 WHITEOAK (IRE) 6 Brendan Richardson Donald McCain Jnr
16 Entries
2 Irish-trained
THE BGC LONG WALK HURDLE ROLL OF HONOUR (1965-2007)
Race run as a handicap prior to 1971
Ascot, Saturday, December 20, 2008 (run at Chepstow in 2005 and Windsor in 2004)
Year Winner Age/Wt Owner Trainer Jockey SP
2007 LOUGH DERG 7-11-07 W Frewen David Pipe Tom Scudamore 14/1
2006 MIGHTY MAN 6-11-07 Joss Hanbury Henry Daly Richard Johnson 11/8F
2005 MY WAY DE SOLZEN 5-11-07 B Windfield, A Longman, J Wright, C Fenton; Alan King Robert Thornton 12/1
2004 BARACOUDA 9-11-07 J P McManus Francois Doumen FR Tony McCoy 8/13F
2003 BARACOUDA 8-11-07 J P McManus Francois Doumen FR Thierry Doumen 2/7F
2002 DEANO’S BEENO 10-11-07 Axom Martin Pipe Tony McCoy 14/1
2001 BARACOUDA 6-11-07 J P McManus Francois Doumen FR Thierry Doumen 2/5F
2000 BARACOUDA 5-11-07 Roger Barby Francois Doumen FR Thierry Doumen 11/4
1999 ANZUM 8-11-07 Old Foresters P’ship Alan King Richard Johnson 4/1
1998 PRINCEFUL 7-11-07 Robert Hitchins Jenny Pitman Richard Dunwoody 11/4F
1997 PADDY’S RETURN 5-11-07 Paddy O’Donnell Ferdy Murphy Norman Williamson 8/1
1996 OCEAN HAWK 4-11-07 Matt Archer/Jean Broadhurst Nigel Twiston-Davies Carl Llewellyn 7/1
1995 SILVER WEDGE 4-11-07 Shirley & Bill Robins Oliver Sherwood Jamie Osborne 7/1
1994 HEBRIDEAN 7-11-07 Peter Deal David Nicholson Adrian Maguire 100/30
1993 SWEET DUKE 6-11-07 Andy Mavrou Nigel Twiston-Davies Carl Llewellyn 7/2
1992 VAGOG 7-11-07 M A Swift Martin Pipe Martin Foster 15/2
1991 Abandoned due to frost
1990 FLOYD 10-11-07 Mike Walsh David Elsworth Graham Bradley 10/1
1989 ROYAL ATHLETE 6-10-08 Gary Johnson Jenny Pitman Dean Gallagher 33/1
1988 FRENCH GOBLIN 5-11-01 Maurice Pinto Josh Gifford Peter Hobbs 3/1
1987 BLUFF COVE 5-10-08 Dickins Ltd Reg Hollinshead Richard Dunwoody 14/1
1986 OUT OF THE GLOOM 5-10-08 Paul Green Reg Hollinshead Peter Scudamore 4/1
1985 MISTY DALE 7-10-08 David Rose Jenny Pitman Phil Tuck 9/4F
1984 KRISTENSON 7-10-08 Ursula Fantasia Roger Fisher Michael Williams 7/2
1983 CRIMSON EMBERS 8-10-11 Pam Smart Fulke Walwyn Stuart Shilston 14/1
1982 MAYOTTE 7-10-11 B Davies Richard Holder Paul Richards 15/8F
1981 Abandoned due to snow
1980 DERRING ROSE 5-11-11 Peter Savill Fred Winter John Francome 7/1
1979 JOHN CHERRY 8-10-11 Milton Ritzenberg Tom Jones Steve Smith Eccles 6/1
1978 KELSO CHANT 6-11-07 Mrs M Richardson Jumbo Wilkinson Steve Charlton 10/1
1977 JOHN CHERRY 6-10-11 Milton Ritzenberg Tom Jones Steve Smith Eccles 11/8F
1976 Abandoned due to frost
1975 LANZAROTE 7-12-05 Lord Howard de Walden Fred Winter John Francome 4/9F
1974 GO BINGO 5-11-12 Guy Reed Sam Hall David Munro 9/4
1973 SOLONING 8-11-08 Mrs C Thornton Fred Winter Richard Pitman 9/2
1972 HIGHLAND ABBE 6-11-12 Mrs K Hankey Les Kennard Mr R Smith 11/1
1971 ST PATRICK’S BLUE 6-11-12 P Aunger David Tatlow Bill Smith 7/2F
1970 ROUGE AUTUMN 6-10-05 Bryan Jenks Fred Rimell Ken White 9/2F
1969 CANDID CAMERA 6-10-06 R F P Ross Ted Goddard Joe Guest 100/8
1968 Abandoned due to waterlogging
1967 Abandoned due to foot and mouth epidemic
1966 SIR EDWARD 6-10-09 R Heaton Ryan Price Josh Gifford 7/2F
1965 MINUTE GUN 8-10-04 Bill Shand Kydd Bill Shand Kydd Richard Pitman 100/8
