An overcast Yorkshire’s Garden Racecourse was the setting for the second of our race fixtures of this truncated 2020 season. The meeting began with the Sky Sports Racing Sky 415 Fillies’ Novice Auction Stakes, over 6 furlongs. Sandhoe, under Jack Garrity, claimed the opener for Jedd O’Keeffe with a gutsy front running performance, fending off the challenge of newcomer the Gift List, who looks a surefire future winner.
Our second race on the card, Watch Sky Sports Racing In HD 6 furlong Handicap went the way of Silent Agenda for Archie Watson, partnered by Danny Tudhope. A trio of low drawn horses navigated towards the far rail and this paid dividends with the far side group ahead from start to finish and Silent Agenda responding generously to Tudhope’s urgings and scooting clear to win well.
Ben Curtis is in red hot form at present and he partnered Socially Shady to triumph in the Sky Sports Racing Hd Virgin 535 Handicap. The Karl Burke-trained gelding appeared to have it all to do two furlongs out but stayed on strongly to gain his first career success and frank the form of Eastern Sheriff, who he finished behind here last month.
Arguably, the most impressive performance of the afternoon came from Mambo Nights. Richard Hannon’s colt brought some smart form to the table against the likes of Quadrilateral and Persuasion and looked a very nice prospect himself in the Follow AtTheRaces On Twitter Handicap. Keeping it simple from the front, Andrea Atzeni and the Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum owned colt swept the challengers aside to win by 2-lengths. A victory of this nature suggesting that the Richard Hannon-trained son of Havana Gold is destined for bigger occasions.
Tim Easterby seldom leaves Yorkshire’s Garden Racecourse empty handed and he notched a quickfire double taking the 1m2f attheraces.com Handicap with Dark Jedi, who followed up on his recent Hamilton success under Duran Fentiman. Half an hour later Garden Oasis defied the widest draw of all to take the 1m Visit attheraces.com Handicap, bouncing out of the gates to make all under an enterprising ride from David Allan and scoring by 4-lengths.
Godolphin got on the scoresheet as favourite Deep Snow got off the mark at the second attempt. A game performance saw Saeed Bin Suroor’s representative stay on strongly to emerge victorious in the Free Tips Daily On Attheraces.com Maiden Stakes. In the final race of the day, the Download The At The Races App Handicap, A enterprising ride from Paddy Mathers gave Richard Fahey a second winner at Yorkshire’s Garden Racecourse in the 2020 season as he partnered Fraternity to victory. Powering down the outside Mathers and Fraternity reeled in Abbotside in the shadow of the post to edge a tightly contested affair.
Jack Wilson
