It felt like an on-track family fun day in what was a superb day for family affairs underneath the sunny Nottinghamshire skies at Southwell today as we saw fathers, sons, brothers, and spouses all victorious in a fantastic afternoon of racing over the jumps.<\/p>\n
The day started off how it ended, with winning relations as jockey Sam Twiston-Davies ran home for trainer and dad Nigel on Checkitout to come home in the first race ahead of Tizzard & Cobden’s favourite Faustinovick over 3m and 60 yards.<\/p>\n
The Skelton\u2019s, Harry and Dan, brothers, Harry a jockey and Dan a trainer, a duo often formidable at Southwell, winning the last race of the day on Aronius ahead of Captain Jack in the class five 1m 7f 182y.<\/p>\n
Those usual winning suspects however sandwiching perhaps the best related moment of the afternoon, the 15:20 fifth race of the day won by the England\u2019s\u2026 A popular husband and wife team as jockey Jonathon won for trainer Sam on the appropriately named Gold Runner to claim a tidy \u00a33,796 in winning the Class 4 Handicap Hurdle after beating Linelee King into second.<\/p>\n
Other winners of the day included the popular jockey\/trainer combo of Nico de Boinville and Nicky Henderson who saw 15\/8 favourite Falco Blitz come home in the class three 13:45 race short of 2m 5f ahead of Samarquand with only four of the six horses finishing.<\/p>\n
In the third race of the day, the 14:20 Novices Hurdle, Evan Williams trained Only The Bold to win at 9\/4 as jockey Adam Wedge saw off the challenge from 40\/1 outsider Voyage De Retour in second.<\/p>\n
The 14:50 class 4 Novices Hurdle over 1m 7f was won by Starvoski ridden by David Bass for KC Bailey as the 6-year-old beat Fortunes Melody with Darryl Jacob on the 8\/11 favourite finishing second.<\/p>\n
Finally in what was the penultimate race of the day, Minella Tara came home for Paddy Brennan on Fergal O\u2019Brien\u2019s Graham & Alison Jelley owned foal which beat of Can You Call and Sublime Heights on soft ground all around to win the class 4 with a winning prize of \u00a33,769.<\/p>\n
They’ll be more racing from Southwell on Wednesday.<\/p>\n