Folkestone celebrate Pompadour Day with amateur hurdle 28th November
21-11-2011
Folkestone Racecourse are once again kindly staging an amateur riders’ hurdle to celebrate Pompadour Day and strengthen ties with Pompadour Racecourse in France. Last year this race was lost to the snow when the runners were actually down at the start in a blizzard!
12 jockeys have been invited to ride in the race and we hope that trainers will be able to support the race by providing runners. Riders will be drawn by ballot by Weatherbys on Sunday morning. We have a rich talent of amateur jockeys in Great Britain and this type of race is a great way to showcase them and help them build up experience before some of them turn professional, as has recently happened in the case of both Harry Derham and Jack Quinlan.
THE HYTHE AMATEUR RIDERS HANDICAP HURDLE
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1 |
Mark O’Hare |
Mark has ridden 17 winners under rules as well as 146 point-to-point winners. |
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2 |
Cyril Coste |
Cyril won this race at Folkestone in 2008 and has had 17 jump wins as well as 4 flat wins. |
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3 |
Robbie Henderson |
Robbie is attached to Alan King’s yard and has had 11 winners under rules as well as 17 point-to-point wins. |
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4 |
Patrick Paihes |
Patrick has ridden 92 winners under rules as well as 35 wins on the flat. |
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5 |
James Ridley |
James has had 3 winners under rules and 10 point-to-point wins. |
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6 |
Mikey Ennis |
Mike is attached to David Pipe’s yard and has ridden 6 winners under rules and 17 point-to-point winners. |
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7 |
Phil York |
Phil is a Folkestone specialist and has ridden 24 winners under rules and 203 point-to-point winners. |
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8 |
Nick Slatter |
Nick has ridden 1 winner under rules and 16 point-to-point winners. |
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9 |
Tom Bellamy |
Fresh from his win at Cheltenham recently, Tom has ridden 3 winners under rules and 5 point-to-point wins. |
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10 |
Oliver Murphy |
Oliver has ridden 5 winners under rules including 2 recently and also 13 point-to-point winners. |
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11 |
Philip Prince |
Philip has ridden 3 winners under rules and 8 point-to-point winners. |
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12 |
Ben Poste |
Ben has ridden 5 winners under rules and 12 point-to-point winners. |