Trainers doubling up in bid to win valuable prize
3.45 Newmarket
Godolphin Flying Start Old Rowley Cup (Heritage Handicap) (CLASS 2) | 1m4f | 3yo | CH 4
With £140,000 in prize-money available trainers seem to have decided the best approach to the Old Rowley Cup is to be double-handed.
Eve Johnson Houghton (Scarlet Dragon and Fleeting Visit), David Menuisier (Saunter and Kaatskill Nap), Richard Hannon (Danehill Kodiac and Steel Of Madrid), Mark Johnston (New Caledonia and Beaverbrook) and Alan King (Cosmeapolitan and Sir Valentine), account for ten of the 18 runners between them.
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