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BETTING ON JUMPS RACING. IT’S A REAL THING NOW
July 19, 2021 3:50 pm
By Matt Stewart, Racing Editor
A mate texted me this morning, alerting me to some figures that are more significant than they first seem.
They raced at both Sportsbet
Pakenham and
Warracknabeal was a flat-race program and Pakenham was exclusively jumps.
The anti-jumps people have had a few key gripes including animal welfare, cost to put it on – believed to be around $4 million a year – and that “no-one bets on it.”
Well, they did yesterday.
Admittedly Pakenham was a showcase of the very best jumping horses and Warracknabeal was a maiden and Benchmark 58 program relocated from washed-out
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AARON’S LEAP INTO HISTORY
May 5, 2021 3:05 pm
By Matt Stewart, Racing Editor
As jumps hero
Steve Pateman was being bumped around back in the field and
Clayton Douglas was on the ground with ripped britches after being bumped off, it was up to a first-timer to perfectly navigate the steeplechase course at
Warrnambool today.
Aaron Mitchell had never ridden the tricky course because he’d never ridden in a steeplechase, or a hurdle race, before today.
The 24-year-old’s impeccable display aboard the
Patrick Payne-trained
Can anyone recall a first-timer winning a jumps race at the Bool?
Five of the 12 starters either failed to finish the course or fell. Douglas (Ascot Red, lost rider) and