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Grandads Horse Takes Bobby Renton Prize
16/10/13

1 Grandads Horse 2/1F
2 Tara Rose 13/2
3 No Planning 6/1
8 ran Distances: 1¼l, nk, 2¾l
TIME 5m 2.20s (slow by 13.20s)

The Charlie Longsdon and Noel Fehily bandwagon rolled into Wetherby and they left with the feature Bobby Renton Handicap Chase as Grandads Horse got up close home.

Grandads Horse
© Grossick Racing Photography

Longsdon can do little wrong at present but despite the 2-1 favourite travelling sweetly into the straight, he was all out to beat Tara Rose and No Planning.

In the end a big jump at the last sealed a length-and-a-quarter win, but Fehily revealed afterwards the persistent rain that fell through the afternoon was not in his favour.

"I wouldn't say I was confident that I'd get there. The ground was soft enough for him but he's got away with it," said Fehily.

"To be fair to him, he didn't run too badly (seventh) in the Summer Plate at Market Rasen but he made a bad mistake down the back. After that his chance had gone, but he ran a nice race afterwards. This wasn't quite as good a race so he was entitled to win, I thought."

Bobby Renton Handicap Chase
£10,000 added, 4yo plus, 2m 4f 110y, Class 3,
8 ran
Going: Good to Soft