Mick & David Easterby

Monday racing: Seven runners at Pontefract

Posted: 18.59 | Sat 7 Jun 25 |

We head to West Yorkshire on Monday where Joanna Mason, Billy Garritty and Lewis Chalkley take the rides. Two of the races have divided and there's a long evening in store!

Lewis Chalkley will ride Refuge in the 'Pontefract Races Chairman's Challenge Apprentice Handicap' which opens the card. Rated 58 he is some 15 pounds below the next horse above him in the handicap and he'll be hoping to make the most of his feather-weight as he bids for his first win of the season.

We run Casilli in the first division of the 'Bill Carrigill Memorial Handicap'. The eight-year-old mare is now 14 pounds below her latest winning mark, winning off 78 at Beverley in 2022. It's almost three years since she won but she's been showing some promising signs in her races this year. The second division of the race sees This Years Love in action. He saves his best for Beverley and he ran well at his favourite course last time. Hopefully that outing will put him spot on for his Pontefract assignment.

Late Arrival

Keep Warm will run in the first division of the six furlong 'Mr Wolf Sprint Handicap' at 8.20. He won twice here as a juvenile over course and distance. Keep Warm is four pounds above the mark from which he won at odds on here in 2023. Larchill Lass will also contest Division One of the race and will be ridden by Sam James. The daughter of Territories will have her sixth race since joining us from Karl Burke, the pick of her form being when runner up in a seller at Beverley last month. Larchill Lass will wear a first time hood.

The final race on the card is the second division of the sprint handicap which and Late Arrival and I Need Your Love in action. Late Arrival is a dual course and distance winner, whilst I Need Your Love won at Redcar last September but has something to prove after being tailed off on his seasonal reappearance here back in April.

I Need Your Love