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Bateson’s Classic produces a Christmas cracker

Dec 7th

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Trainer Julie Bateson’s Target Classic produced an amazing performance on Monday as the heats of the various Ladbrokes Christmas Festival competitions began. Bateson’s Classic set a new track record of 27.71secs in the opening heat for the 480m dog’s event.

The Scottish Derby and All England Cup finalist trapped well and was soon away using early pace, eventually finishing five spots quicker than the previous best of Charlie Lister duo Bandicoot Tipoki and Farloe Lee.

“He’s a super-fast dog when he gets it right and he absolutely bombed the lids today. They told us afterwards that it probably makes him the world record holder which is a nice accolade to have,” said Steve Bateson, husband of the winning trainer.

The other heats in this event went to Charlie Philpott’s Barnfield Rocky and Mark Wallis’s Eye Eye Pickle, while Freedom State was quickest in the bitches’ 480m competition, setting a track time of 28.23secs, and Cuddlers Corner (24.52sec) in the 416m event.

Wallis’s duo Kinda Easy (evens) and Corrig Vieri (6-4) were both favourites for the feature competition of the week, the Ladbrokes Christmas Festival 630m, but they failed to qualify through to Friday’s final. Crown Rover was the dog to rise to the occasion and show his class when winning the third heat in a best-of-round 37.50secs. Other winners were Essex Vase champion Boolavogue (37.96sec) and Bodell Clare (37.78sec).

Draws for Friday’s finals – 630m: 1 Boolavogue, 2 Crown Rover, 3 Hesley Dingo, 4 Droopys Arshavin, 5 Bodell Clare, 6 Dessies Blueboy (m).

480m dogs: 1 Swift Rooster, 2 Barnfield Rocky, 3 Target Classic, 4 Eye Eye Pickle, 5 Magna Venturer, 6 Uncle Ollie.

480m bitches: 1 Fatboyz Gracie, 2 Wombourne Babe, 3 Droopys Quinta (m), 4 Freedom State(m), 5 Lively Iris (m), 6 Wok About Molly (w).

416m: 1 Micks Ginger, 2 Iceman Joss (m), 3 Cuddlers Corner (m), 4 Pack Up (m), 5 Bad Bog (w), 6 Fatboyz Rocky (w).

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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.”

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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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