After an autumn of no shows and poor attendances that was more like it. A decent crowd at Sandown Park on Betfair Tingle Creek Day had plenty to cheer about including a definitive victory in the feature race by Alan King’s Edwardstone, which stamped him as the best two-miler around, and a dazzling round of jumping from Jonbon in the Henry VIII Chase which saw him cut to 7-4 for the Arkle at Cheltenham next March. ‘I’m absolutely stealing a living when I go out on him,’ said Jonbon’s jockey Aidan Coleman. ‘He’s push-button.’ But there was a special character to the cheers around the winner’s enclosure after a tight three-horse finish to the Pertemps Network Handicap Hurdle in which David Maxwell on Dolphin Square triumphed over Call Me Lord and Wilde About Oscar by a nose and a short head.
They don’t make too many like David Maxwell any more.
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