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Bateson retains her title at Shawfield

Dec 6th

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Ardkill Tunoco (5-2) credited trainer Julie Bateson with back to-back wins of the ibetx.com St Mungo Cup. Tunoco produced a tremendous performance to reverse Boherna Best’s All England Cup form in Saturday’s £2,500 final on the 480m track at Shawfield.

Bateson always looked like retaining the title once Tunoco had flashed out of the traps and got first run on Best, who gave chase but never threatened to catch up with the leader.

Tunoco ultimately scored by more than five lengths from kennelmate Target Gold, who stayed on late to pass the All England Cup champion for second.

The winning time of 29.36 sec reflected a surprisingly slow track. Bateson said: “I don’t think the slow going affected the outcome, although I suppose it might have helped Target Gold get second as he’s a really strong runner.”

“We’ve always said Ardkill Tunoco is very good when he gets it right and that’s just what he did this time.”

“The St Mungo is a fantastic old competition with a brilliant trophy and one I’ve always targeted since I got a licence. A lot of credit and thanks are due to ibetx for stepping in at short notice to ensure it went ahead this year.”

B.Shah

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Bateson targets to beat best

Nov 29th

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Julie Bateson took part in the Ibetx.com St Mungo Cup heats this Saturday at Shawfield. Bateson entered three of her dogs into the competition and was delighted with the results which saw her land a double chance for the finals next week.

The St Mungo Cup also sees the return of dual All England Cup Champion Boherna Best on the tracks. Trainer Barrie Draper certainly thinks he is in peak form at the moment and will prove a strong threat in the competition, while the markets certainly back him as a favourite.

The first heat kicked off with Target Classic (2-1) to represent camp Bateson on the 480m track from trap two, which put him up against a few popular names including Best. Classic was eliminated, however, seeing Gary Carmichael’s Sniper Petra (5-1) get the first run on Best (4-6F) in a time of 29.01secs.

The rest of the heats saw a different outcome for Camp Bateson, who’s Ardkill Tunoco and Target Gold justified (1-2) favouritism in heats two and three respectively, both finishing first.

Tunoco produced the best time of the day of 28.90secs, pleasing Bateson who went on to say “We all know about Tunoco, when he does everything right, he’s very good but unfortunately he doesn’t always do everything right”.

The only concern the trainer had for Gold is she believes he traps best from trap six. Having said that, that is exactly where the dog will be starting from coming next Saturday. Camp Bateson is certainly geared up to produce an exciting night for the finals – will things go their way?

B.Shah

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