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Tingle Creek Meeting
Sandown
4-5 December 2009
Book tickets for the Tingle Creek meeting
Sandown hosts its first Grade One race of the jumps season in the shape of the two-mile Tingle Creek Chase – one of the most fiercely contested events in the winter calendar.
The race attracts the cream of the two-mile chasers and has developed in recent years into a prestigious event in its own right, as well as a major stepping stone towards the Queen Mother Champion Chase at the Cheltenham Festival.
Recent winners have included hat-trick scorer Flagship Uberalles (1999-2001) and Moscow Flyer who pipped Azertyuiop to the post in both 2003 and 2004, the Tingle Creek winner has gone on to be placed at least in the last four runnings of the Champion Chase. Kauto Star, Horse of the Year in 2007, won the race for the second time in 2006, with an impressive victory which left subsequent Queen Mother Champion Chase winner Voy Por Ustedes firmly in his shadow, while in 2008 the unstoppable Master Minded cantered to yet another awe-inspiring victory.
Sandown’s tricky chase course provides a searching test of jumping ability at speed. The Railway fences down the back straight come in quick succession, putting the emphasis on a sound jumping rhythm, and another famous feature of the course is the Pond Fence, the third-last obstacle just before the turn into the straight.
Tingle Creek day also features the William Hill Handicap Hurdle, one of the most competitive two-mile handicaps in the hurdling calendar. The race often falls to a high-class hurdler in the making – in 1996, for instance, Make A Stand won on his way to Champion Hurdle glory later in the season.
Sandown is one of the most moderna nd beautiful racecourses in the country and huge crowds are always attracted to this top quality event.
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