Capel Smiley pulls off 33-1 Doncaster stunner for Gifkins.CAPEL SMILEY, at 33-1 the rank outsider rank outsider n → totaler Außenseiter m, totale Außenseiterin f rank outsider n → outsider m/f inv of the field, produced a stunning performance to land the pounds 9,000 Carlsberg Yorkshire St Leger over 661m at Doncaster - and there was very little fluke about it, writes Jonathan Kay. Reserving his best break of the event for when it mattered most, the Tony Gifkins-trained dog did drop back into third behind Kinda Easy and Carbarns Tom, but remained on the premises while market principals Crown Rover, who had trapped poorly, and Droopys Zach dropped right back after first bend trouble. Capel Smiley was really flying by the fourth bend and swept past Kinda Easy at the fifth, powering home from that point to beat Carbarns Tom by almost two lengths in a joint best-ofevent 41.34sec. "That was very unexpected," said Lee Gifkins, who owns the winner in partnership with Chris Sliney, afterwards. "That was probably a better race than the [William Hill] St Leger final itself and I was hoping he'd be third or fourth, but he's run a blinder. He'll be even better next year but goes for the [Coral] Essex Vase at Romford on Friday first." Redbrick red·brick adj. Of, relating to, or being the British universities other than Oxford and Cambridge. [So-called because many of the buildings of such universities were built of red bricks. Droopy droop v. drooped, droop·ing, droops v.intr. 1. To bend or hang downward: "His mouth drooped sadly, pulled down, no doubt, by the plump weight of his jowls" got the run of the race from the front to land the pounds 1,000 College Causeway & Killahan Phanter At Stud Unraced Puppy final over 483m in what was his swansong for local trainer James Johnstone. Crucially, he shut the door on the challenging Ballymac Ace at 2 Pigalle Fitz ...........................[4] 5/1 3/4 3 Roxholme Taff ......................[3] 4/1 1 4 Glynnscross Milo Milo, athlete of ancient Greece Milo (mī`lō) or Milon (mī`lŏn), fl. 500 B.C., athlete of ancient Greece, b. Crotona. ..................[5] 6/1 3/4 5 Boherash Lynn .....................[6] 11/4 3/4 6 de Denan ..............................[2] 7/2 23/4 F'cast: pounds 15.86 T'cast: pounds 50.29 (130%) N McEllistrim 9.57 (off 9.57) A1 460m 1 SETEMUP VELVET .............[2] 7/4F 28.37 2 Cloheena Star .....................[4] 7/2 nk 3 Roquefort Gold .....................[3] 4/1 shd 4 Miss Sporty...........................[1] 9/4 1 5 Ellies Worker ........................[5] 10/1 11/2 6 Lonesome lone·some adj. 1. a. Dejected because of a lack of companionship. See Synonyms at alone. b. Producing such dejection: a lonesome hour at the bar. 2. Dave ...................[6] 7/1 13/4 F'cast: pounds 10.18 T'cast: pounds 29.49 (130%) J Foster 10.13 (off 10.13) S2 668m 1 LILYWHITE FLO See MediaFLO. JO............[3] 9/4F 42.09 the third bend and had just enough in hand to hold a rallying Vatican Seamus, who had been up there early prior to running wide, by a neck in 29.95sec. "We bred him out of a good bitch [Redbrick Droopy] and got the pleasure of rearing him and bringing him to the track," said Johnstone afterwards, "but the owner [Edward Watson] has a plan and we work to that - so he's been sold and he's off after this race. He's only just coming up 17 months old and can only progress." Mike McKenna, sponsor of the unraced competition, got some of his money back when his own Arctic Monkey, trained by Ted Soppitt, gamely took the Britishbred event, holding off Ring Ouzel ouzel or ousel Species (Turdus torquatus) of songbird in the thrush family, characterized by a white crescent on the breast. A blackish bird, about 10 in. (25 cm) long, it breeds locally in uplands from Britain and Norway to the Middle East. by a neck in 29.82sec. There was a popular local success when Eddie Link''s Run Of The Hawk bounced back from his Yorkshire St Leger disappointment by justifying strong support in a 661m open. There was a minor scare when he was barged out of the way by Roman Jupiter at the first bend, but he chased that rival down to lead at the fifth and drew clear for a four lengths victory in 41.66sec. Trainer Chris Allsopp recorded a double courtesy of Officer Donagh and Little Jig, Target Gold landed some hefty bets when taking the opening televised event on his bow for Julie Bateson, and Gabba Gabba Hey bounced back from a sub-par Newcastle effort to win the track's first 705m open. 2 Sneaky Smeagle .................[2] 5/2 31/4 3 Swift Budgie budgerigar, budgie see melopsittacus undulatus. budgerigar fledgling disease a polyomavirus infection of young psittacines that causes failure of feather growth, hepatic and renal necrosis, and sometimes death. ..........................[6] 5/2 31/4 4 Granary Sparkle ...................[1] 5/2 1/2 5 Pigalle Prince .......................[5] 12/1 1 6 Harpers Hawk ......................[4] 10/1 21/2 F'cast: pounds 9.87 T'cast: pounds 22.50 (133%) R Rees 10.30 (off 10.30) A2 460m 1 LILYWHITE ANGEL ...... ......[4] 4/1 28.40 2 Fitzroy Julia .........................[6] 3/1 1 3 Lavally Sunrise .....................[5] 7/2 31/4 4 Walk With Us........................[2] 6/1 1 5 Ballymac Raymond ..............[3] 2/1F 43/4 6 Bevs Gem.............................[1] 7/2 1 F'cast: pounds 21.64 T'cast: pounds 68.30 (137%) R Rees CAPTION(S): Capel Smiley, the Lee Gifkins-trained hero of last night's live on Sky Carlsberg Yorkshire St Leger at Doncaster, owned jointly by Gifkins and Chris Sliney |
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