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Cornas camp's future is bright

by Guest1414 | 12 years, 7 month(s) ago

Cornas camp's future is bright. when you run for the future and want to leave everyone else behind you in dust and you actually end up doing it; the future can only bring good fortune. It all happened at Exeter Racecourse Conference Centre Graduation Chase (Class 2) 2m1½f.

CONNECTIONS of Cornas has the eyes set on a much bigger target after the progressive seven-year-old ran out a smooth winner of the graduation chase at Exeter on Thursday.

William Hill sponsored race the "Desert Orchid Chase" at Kempton on December 27 is likely to be the next target for Cornas and a positive display there could lead to a crack at the Seasons Holidays Queen Mother Champion Chase at the Cheltenham Festival in March.

"He deserved a win like that and we'll certainly take a look at the Desert Orchid," trainer Nick Williams said.

Cornas, a creditable runner-up to Planet Of Sound in the William Hill Gold Cup at Exeter last month, cruised into the lead after the third last fence and quickly put the race to bed under Daryl Jacob.

Returning as the 11-10 favourite, Cornas had 13 lengths to spare from 17-2 shot Or Bleu, with the Tony McCoy-ridden Paul Nicholls representative Pasco, who cut out the early running, back in third.

The victory will be a timely boost for Williams, who is set to saddle Diamond Harry in the Grade 1 BGC Long Walk Hurdle on Saturday.

The five runners did not jump the four fences down the back because of the low-lying sun.

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Kyne, 18, was apprentice to trainer John Quinn. He had ridden 29 winners this season and was third in the apprentice jockeys' championship. He had been due to ride at Haydock on Saturday.

Wilson, 19, was based with David Barron. She had been due to ride Imperial Sword, owned by her parents, at Thirsk.

The Racing Post was requested on Saturday night by North Yorkshire Police not to name the victims until further investigations had been carried out.

Police have arrested a local man in connection with the incident, which happened in a block of flats in Norton, near Malton. The man remained the police custody overnight.

The North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service was first informed of the incident at 2.12am on Saturday, with emergency vehicles on site ten minutes later.

Around 35 firefighters attempted to extinguish the flames, which are not thought to have originated in the third-floor flat in which the jockeys lived.

Racecourses on Saturday paid their respects tothe victims. Silent tributes of various lengths took place at those tracks racing, where jockeys all wore black armbands.

York racecourse flew its flags at half mast, while Kevin Darley, chief executive of the Professional Jockeys' Association, said: "To lose two very talented young riders in these circumstances is tragic."
Jamie Spencer

Jamie Spencer: 'same wave-length'
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Jamie Spencer said: "I couldn't believe it when I heard the news about Jamie. I am shocked, devastated. I tipped him up long ago to be a future star. As apprentices go, he was in a different league; you only had to watch him ride to know he had something special.

"I got to know him this year and when I was up north, I always had a chat with him; he was always so bright and sparky and was one of those young lads you could connect with because you were both on the same wave-length.

"The last time I spoke to him, he was really happy that things were going so well for him, and nobody was happier than me that they were. He was going places. He would have made it big, I'm sure of that.

"We had a chat about what he might do in the winter and I was advising him about going to America or Australia and what they had to offer somebody like him. It's an absolute tragedy what'shappened to him and a terrible waste of a talented young life."
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