Favourite backers found themselves on the back foot in the early races at Cherrybrook where the 13 layers offered a strong market. After the opener, which produced a walk over […]
GRANVILLE TAYLOR & DONNA HARRIS THE two leading Devon & Cornwall area jockeys in recent years, Darren Edwards and Will Biddick each landed doubles at Cherrybrook. Will Biddick carried off […]
Hunt Race (Sponsor Condy Mathias) 1 Clondaw Bunny (Darren Edwards) walked over Open Maiden Div 1 (Tyre Marks Tavistock) 1 Neetside (Jake Bament) 6-4 led four out, stayed on well […]
Only eight bookies turned up at Kilworthy – presumably because of the fixture clash with Haldon races on the same day. The eight seemed to have the edge over the […]
WRITTEN BY GRANVILLE TAYLOR “The sun has come out – and the air is vivid with spring light”……. Byron Caldwell Smith 1849-1877 A perpetual blue sky helped to brighten up […]
Going: Good to Soft Hunt (Sponsor Pannell Commercials) 1 Tamarstone (David Prichard) 5-1 made virtually all, kept on strongly 2 Acadian (Lee Drowne) 2-5 fav strong chall from last, just […]
Thirteen hungry looking bookies {unlucky for some) provided an ominous line up at the old Buckfastleigh racecourse, and it wasn’t long before the punters were feeding them with folding notes.The […]
GRANVILLE TAYLOR & DONNA HARRIS “The winter’s wind, which, when it bites and blows upon my body, even til I shrink with cold, I smile” As you like it – […]
GOING: SOFT, HEAVY IN PLACES POINT-TO-POINT RESULTS RESTRICTED (ASHBURTON MOTOR WORKS) 1 Cloudy Music (Darren Edwards) 4-1; prom, led four out, stayed on strongly 2 Missyladie (Thomasina Eyston) 7-2went 2nd […]
A thoroughly wet and windy day at Ottery failed to spoil the entertainment, with plenty of faces willing to take on the layers. I suspect the bookies went home with […]
