Amie Waugh smiled after the shock victory of Heavenly Heather in Newcastle.Photography: Richard Sellers / PA
The Easter race program experienced a major shock in Newcastle on Good Friday, while Heavenly Heather, a 200-1 chance by the reseller of 3 LB AMIE WAUGH, has become the most older winner of the year with a success of half a lecture in the championships of seven pulleys and the juris of mars.
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The Wash mount had won none of its five previous departures and was 19 “bad” pounds to weights, which means that Heavenly Heather ran from an effective handicap brand of 79 rather than its official note of 60.
In relation: The Skelton winner in Cheltenham maintains a narrow duel title advance with Mullins
However, her rider took full advantage of his draw for the stands and obtained a good response from Heavenly Heather when she asked him to accelerate a stadium from his home against the rail.
The winner was the 12th horse to be won at 200-1 in Great Britain since the beginning of the century, and the first at these ratings since November 2024. The record prize of the United Kingdom for a winner is 250-1, established by Equinoctial in Kelso in November 1990.
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Elsewhere on the Newcastle card, Andrew Balding continued its solid start to the flat season in 2025 with a double in the first four races, but there was a setback for its stable with the news that Sheikh Fahad Al-Thani, the Qatar race operation, deleted its six horses from the site.
Bat Kameko win the 2,000 Guinea In 2020, in the colors of Blaret and Gold of Qatar Racing, while ELM Park, Side Glonce and New Century, winner of Grade 1 at Woodbine in Canada last September, also won the victories at the highest level for the owner in recent seasons.
The sudden departure of the Qatar races from the bald site is a surprise, especially because the coach had such a good start until 2025, creating an early advance in the race for the coach championship with 42 winners and about £ 700,000 at the bank before running on Friday.
In strictly digital terms, however, the loss of half a dozen horses will be barely noticed in Kingsclere, where Balding now leads to one of the largest strings in the country, with nearly 300 horsepower listed in the last edition of horses in training.
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Balding sends four runners during the long trip of the Hampshire to the precious Musselburgh meeting on Saturday, and Wild waves (3.35), who progressed from Maiden Company to a race in the St Leger during his three -year season, is a worthy favorite to win the first £ 50,000 prize from Queen's Cup, the functionality on the map.
Musselburgh 1.50: The three -year -old child Wiltshire Lad was the penultimate winner of the exceptional career of Sir Michael Stout when he managed all time in Southwell last October. Gelded since then, he began his first season for the Bald stable on a brand of 5 lb higher and will surely pay his way as the season develops.
Haydock 2.05: Become gray made a flying start for Dan Skelton in the fall, but seemed to lose his way on a softer floor over the season. However, its brand has released by 6 LB in three outputs, and the return to a faster surface here could well see a well -timed renewal.
Musselburgh 2.25: Jennie Candlish Alzahir returned to the lawn in the form of his life following a wind operation earlier in the year and will take every time in his candidacy for a third consecutive success.
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Hay 1.30 Sun of Arizona 2.05 Got Gray 2.40 Burrows Hall 3.15 The Flier Beggley 3.50 Safety destination 4.25 Mahler Moon 5.00 Captain Ivan
Carlisle 1.42 Lady Babs 2.17 Empty Nest 2.52 Bel Amigo 3.27 Jet Legs 4.02 CRUDEN 4.37 MAN OF UNIDA 5.12 George DARLING
Musselburgh 1.50 Wiltshire LAD 2.25 Alzahir 3.00 US case (NAP) 3.35 Wild Waves (NB) 4.10 IVATTT 4.45 EPIDAVROS 5.17 Moonstone Boy
Huntingdon 1.54 RIP Wheeler 2.29 OVERABOTTLEOFRED 3.04 give it to me oj 3.39 Tara iti 4.14 MUSKOKA 4.49 BBALOT 5.24 AMBER WAVES
Newton Abbot 1.59 walking on a high military magnate of 2.34 3.09 time to bite 3.44 Opticality 4.19 Scarface 4.54 Puddlesinthepark 5.29 Moonset
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Wolverhampton 5.20 Billy McGarry 5.55 Skibo 6.30 Novak 7.00 Romantic Spirit 7.30 Slowdownbarney 8.00 Radiant Angel 8.30 Royal Agreement
Haydock 2.40: The first round Terrifying hall is undefeated in three starts since Danny McMenamin took over in the saddle and it could be very difficult to pass here.
Musselburgh 3.00: High -number stands have a significant advantage over this five -stroke route while Jim Goldie American affair, The close winner of Portland Handicap in Doncaster last September, in the ideal place in Box Nine for its seasonal beginnings. He also has a winning form when fresh, including a victory at this meeting last year.
Haydock 3.15: Gary Hanmer has already cajolé a new new vein of form of The leaflet begley Since its visit to the stable at the start of the campaign, and the 10 -year victory on the Rasen market market for this veterans event is the strongest recent form proposed.
