Catterick's 2008 season on the Flat begins next Wednesday (April 2) – the first of 18 scheduled days' racing on the level this year at the North Yorkshire course.
Racing on Wednesday begins at 2-20 p.m. and the seven-race programme features The catterickbridge.co.uk Handicap Stakes – a contest for stayers over almost one mile and three-quarters (won last year by Halla San, who has developed into a useful hurdl
er) and The Gods Solution Handicap Stakes over seven furlongs.
Gods Solution won eleven races between 1985 and 1991, eight of which were achieved at Catterick. He won the same corresponding race (a sprint contest over six furlongs) at Catterick's opening meeting of the Flat season on six occasions. He was trained at Maunby near Thirsk by David Barron, who appropriately was responsible for the winner of last year's race, Sir Orpen.
The giant screen will be at Wednesday's meeting, enabling racegoers to follow all of the action. Indeed, The Giant Screen Is Here Every Day Handicap Stakes for three-year-old sprinters, is scheduled to be the afternoon's final race.
Catterick's Top Trainer and Jockey Awards on the Flat, supported by The Nag's Head at Pickhill, were won last year by Mark Johnston and Neil Callan respectively, while Greg Fairley was the course's leading apprentice jockey for the second successive season. He was also Britain's Champion Apprentice Jockey in 2007 with a total of 65 winners.
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