FOUR TIMER HILL ON RIGHT ROYAL FORM AT KINGSTON BLOUNT 7-5-17

Jo Hill celebrates Start Royals win and  a good day for the Hill team

A beautiful setting in the heart of the Oxfordshire countryside, what more would you want?

Fine,warm Sunny weather. Okay got it.....

good food and drink, Check......

And quality point to point action.
No problem The Kimblewick Hunt meeting will take car of that.
So here we go then, hold on tight seven races for you to have a look at.

The first race a restricted, won by Dunara Castle a ride Gina Andrews stepped down off to ride Chester copperpot.

Dunara Castle (red cap) leads the field in the first race

Listen to owner Tom Brockett and jockey Jordan (NOT JAKE) Naylor chat about the first winner of the afternoon.

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Dunara Castle

She didn't get off this one. Gina Andrews back in the winners enclosure in the next on Quick Oats for Nigel Padfield.

Quick Oats 

We chat to Gina about the horse, her five timer last weekend at Mollington and the Anglo-Irish race meet at the end of the Month here at Kingston Blount.

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GINA ANDREWS ANOTHER WINNER FOR THE SEASON ON Quick Oats 

The third race and the start of a four timer for local trainer Alan Hill. Start Royal gave the crowd a treat by taking his 27th victory in points at the age of thirteen.
We have covered three of these wins already this season. Higham, Hackwood Park and now here at Kingston Blount, so we had a chat to Stuart Nash part owner and Clerk of the course at the Oxfordshire track after his superstars victory.

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Start Royal gave the crowd a treat by taking his 27th victory in points at the age of thirteen.

Not content with one winner, Alan puts out Horizontal Speed in the next, The Mens Open. Gareth Henderson the owner on board.

We chat to Gareth after the race, about the horse and the yard.

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Horizontal Speed (right) Tajseer (left)

And as luck would have it, Changeofluck from the hill yard wins well in the next, The Intermediate.

Changeofluck

We chat to Son Joe about the horse and how his dad deserves the success he gets. Not only a good horseman, trainer, coach. But a farmer of 1'000 acres to boot....
Is there no rest for the wicked.........

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Joe Hill looks around on Changeofluck as Gina Andrews bears down on him with Cheltenham Mati

Oh go on Alan have a break, an ice cream on me.
The next the 2m 5 f Open maiden was taken fashionably by a horse now for sale. Tangoed out of the Francesca Nimmo yard, a good friend of Podcast Pointing, Ridden by a young lad on a double for the afternoon Jordan (NOT JAKE) Naylor who bough this very nice four year old to take her maiden race.

Tangoed

A promising prospect.Listen to me chat with Fran after the race.

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The next the 2m 5 f Open maiden was taken fashionably by a horse now for sale. Tangoed 

The final race, and The Kimblewick's own hunt supporters race was taken by the man in forms horse For'N' Against. Alan Hill, son Joe on board for a double..
We didn't have a chat to Alan,Joe or anyone else from the Hill team after the race, just went for a pint with him instead to raise a glass to the trainer with a four timer on a course he has spent time on to get right for racing. CHEERS ALAN.

              For'N' Against.

So listen to me wax Lyrical about the horse and trainer at the end of a good days Pointing.
And I promise not a drop had passed my lips beforehand.........Maybe after though.

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Do not forget, or miss the next meeting at the Oxfordshire course FRIDAY 26THMAY                     first race 4PM

THE ANGLO-IRISH POINT TO POINT CHALLENGE.

The best of the Irish armatures coming Vs the best of the British. 

Codd Vs Biddick. Andrews Vs Larkin.

Podcast pointing will be there to cover the action

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