Tredegar Review

Wales' Rhys Flint, 17, continues to make the racing headlines. At the Tredegar Farmers Point-to-Point at Lower Machen on Sunday he was in cracking form landing his first hat-trick with Iris's Prince (Mixed Open), Bobosh (Novice Riders) and Classic Chance (Maiden, division one).

Iris's Prince, who was winning for the eighth time this season, won by three lengths from Twilight Dancer; Bobosh, who like Iris's Prince is trained by Rhys' mother Martine, scored by a length from gallant old Derring Dove, after his brilliant young rider had lost his irons jumping the last. Rhys completed his hat-trick when Classic Chance had six lengths to spare over Grandpops Joy.
At Taunton's Arab horse race meeting 24 hours earlier, the boy wonder had won on Noble Athlete.

However, the happiest rider at Lower Machen was Pembrokeshire's David Underwood, 26, who chalked-up his first ever winner in six years on his mother Janet's Holmwood Legend (Open Maiden, division two). Mrs Underwood has had horses for 26 years but this was her first winner too.

Eddie Ford's Little Ed was an easy winner of the Members' race under Rhys Hughes who brought his season's tally of wins to 16.

In the Restricted, Deano Coleman took up the running four fences from home on Glynis England's My Beauty, who won by 15 lengths from Cnocan Aoibhinn.

The Mares-only Maiden went to Kingaroy Lass who, partnered by Nick Williams, won by two lengths from Little Miss Monty. Owned by the Western Mail's Richard Western with Tudor Harris and Adrian Simpson, this nice five-year-old mare gave trainer Beverley Thomas her first win of the season.

Meanwhile, well done to Pontypridd's father and son team Jack and Robert Rowsell on winning the hunter chase at Hereford last Thursday with their £500 bargain buy Red Man. A 10-1 chance, Red Man nearly unseated his rider, Richard Bandey, four fences from the finish but still won by seven lengths from the favourite De Luain Gorm.

And reigning national champion Point-to-Point rider James Tudor from Cowbridge, riding his cousin Jonathan Tudor's Minsgill Man, landed the 4-mile Crudwell Cup at day two of the Radnor & West Hereford meeting on Sunday, Minsgill Man, who recently finished a close second in the Dunraven Bowl at Chepstow, was made an odds-on favourite and scored by two-and-a-half lengths from Waterberg - and was James's 21st winner of the season.

Paul Miles's Lady Myfanwy chalked-up her seventh Point-to-Point win of the season when winning the Ladies' Open under Jodie Hughes on the first day of the Radnor & West Hereford at Cold Harbour last Saturday.