Sandown Races
Sandown
16:12
Coral Celebrating 50 Year Eclipse Sponsorship Handicap
Sandown
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2025
Distance: 7f
Type: Flat
Going: Good To Firm
Class: Class 3
Surface: Turf
Win: £5.50
Place: £1.85 £2 £5.35
Exacta: £35.40
Tricast: £791.38
Trifecta: £611
| Pos | No. | Horse | Notes | Age/Sex | Status | Jockey | Trainer | Weight | SP | Beaten By | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 4 | Mudbir (GB) | 2 C | Elite | John & Thady Gosden | 134 lbs | 9/2 | Won | In touch with leaders - headway and disputed lead over 1f out - led narrowly inside final furlong - kept on(tchd 7/2) | ||
| 2nd | 1 | Defence Minister (GB) | 3 C | AVG | Hamad Al Jehani | 137 lbs | 6/1 | - | Took keen hold - towards rear - headway under 2f out - ran on and went second final strides (jockey said colt ran too free)(tchd 13/2) | ||
| 3rd | 2 | The Fingal Raven (IRE) | 3 G | Poor | Jamie Osborne | 136 lbs | 33/1 | - | Prominent - disputed lead over 1f out - headed inside final furlong - no extra and lost second final strides(op 22/1) | ||
| 4th | 5 | Dance In The Storm (GB) | 3 F | AVG | Andrew Balding | 132 lbs | 11/8F | - | Took keen hold - in rear - short of room after 1f - headway on outer from 3f out - pressed leaders over 1f out - hung right inside final furlong - weakening when bit short of room final 110yds(op 6/4 tchd 7/4) | ||
| 5th | 6 | Gilet (IRE) | 3 G | Poor | Warren Greatrex | 132 lbs | 10/1 | - | Raced in second - lost position over 1f out - soon weakened(op 9/1 tchd 8/1) | ||
| 6th | 7 | City Of Poets (IRE) | 3 C | Elite | James Tate | 131 lbs | 4/1 | - | Pulled hard - towards rear - edged right and weakened over 1f out (jockey said colt ran too free)(tchd 7/2 and tchd 9/2) | ||
| 7th | 3 | Arctic Grey (IRE) | 3 C | AVG | Richard Hannon | 136 lbs | 25/1 | - | In rear - stumbled under 3f out - weakened over 1f out(op 16/1) | ||
| 8th | 8 | Aparajeo (IRE) | 3 G | AVG | Clive Cox | 129 lbs | 40/1 | - | In rear - short of room after 1f - hampered after 2f - weakened over 1f out(tchd 50/1) | ||
| 9th | 9 | Cartwheel (GB) | 2 F | AVG | Dylan Cunha | 127 lbs | 66/1 | - | Led (vet said filly bled from the nose)(op 40/1 tchd 80/1) |