CRACKERJACQUE took our score for the season to 34 with a clear-cut success in the £16,000 bumper on really deep ground at Sandown on Saturday.
With Dreaming Blue running a career best with a narrow defeat in the valuable three mile handicap Chase our horses have now earned over £400,000 with another twelve weeks of the season left.
Crackerjacque was bred by the late Tim Frost and is owned by his son Will in partnership with Cleeves Palmer and Simon Wakely.
His dam is a sister of our great old campaigner Sam Brown who has done wonderfully well for the Frost family.
Crackerjacque has had plenty of education since he was two both with us and Will Biddick and ran with a fair bit of promise when he was fifth in a bumper on his racecourse debut at Exeter two months ago.
He made much of the running at Sandown ridden by Sam Twiston-Davies, found more when briefly headed and kept on strongly to beat Mondoui’boy by three and a half lengths.
He seemed to glide through the challenging conditions and while it might be tilting at windmills we might keep him for the Aintree bumper at the Grand National meeting.
Then it will be a case of schooling him over hurdles before turning him out to grass for the summer.
Crackerjaque was born at Childhay (home)and named after his dam Midniight Crackle and Granddam Creamcracker.He was nicknamed Jack as a foal as he’s a real Jack the lad.Very exciting for us after he stayed so well on Saturday in bottomless ground.So thrilled after talking great friends the Palmer’s and Wakeley’s into Co ownership!
Fabulous training performance by all at Team Honeyball and well bred my Dad!
Congratulations to you all