Saturday will have four legs over jumps at Cheltenham on the second day of the Showcase Meeting with the remaining two legs on Futurity Trophy Day at Doncaster.
Doncaster will have the opening leg with the Richard James Hone Memorial Handicap at 12:55pm. This 5f sprint is worth a total of £50k with ten runners entered.
Leg two at 1:10pm is the first of four successive legs at Cheltenham with the 2m4f William Hill Epic Boosts Novices’ Limited Handicap Chase. Spectacularsunrise for Nigel and Willy Twiston-Davies, Rockonliam for Henry de Bromhead and Lisbane Park for Joe Tizzard are currently vying for favouritism in an open looking contest.
Leg three at 2:20pm, the Pertemps Network Handicap Hurdle, will have the biggest field of the six races with 19 runners out of the maximum 20 set to line up. Top weight of 12st will be saddled by the ten-year-old Gower Road whose last run was in the Pertemps Final at the Cheltenham Festival where he finished 21st out of 24.
The 3m1f William Hill Best Odds Guaranteed Handicap Chase will be the fourth leg at 2:55pm. With a prize fund of £100,000, this is the most valuable race on the card at Prestbury Park. The winner will collect over £52,000.
With just seven runners remaining, the Masterson Holdings Hurdle at leg five will have the smallest field size in the Scoop6 this weekend. This Class 2 race over 2m½f is due to start at 3:30pm. This was won last year by 4/9 favourite Give It To Me Oj who was trained by the now retired Gary Moore alongside his son Josh.
The sixth and final leg will be back at Doncaster at 3:55pm with the 1m2f William Hill Best Odds Guaranteed Handicap. This £30,000 race has sixteen runners set to compete.
- Leg 1: 12:55 @ Doncaster – Richard James Hone Memorial Handicap
- Leg 2: 1:10 @ Cheltenham – William Hill Epic Boosts Novices’ Limited Handicap Chase
- Leg 3: 2:20 @ Cheltenham – Pertemps Network Handicap Hurdle
- Leg 4: 2:55 @ Cheltenham – William Hill Best Odds Guaranteed Handicap Chase
- Leg 5: 3:30 @ Cheltenham – Masterson Holdings Hurdle
- Leg 6: 3:55 @ Doncaster – William Hill Best Odds Guaranteed Handicap
The Scoop6 takes place every Saturday and occasionally through the week during big meetings such as the Cheltenham Festival, Kempton’s Christmas Festival, Royal Ascot and Glorious Goodwood.
The six races, known as legs, can be at one single meeting or across a number of meetings. Originally these races would have all been televised by a domestic broadcaster, such as ITV racing. Now they can be a mix of televised and non-televised afternoon races depending on field size, favouring races with more runners.
The Scoop6 itself is made up of a win fund for picking six winners and a place fund for those selecting six placed horses. If the prize fund isn’t won, it rolls over to the next available Scoop6.
