Le Beau Bai comes good
Monday 16th March 2009, 12:47PM GMT.
Disappointment at Cheltenham for south Shropshire border trainer Richard Lee turned to joy at Carlisle as Le Beau Bai came good.
The six-year-old had been pulled up in the National Hunt Chase at the Festival on Wednesday, but made a quick return to the fray when scoring at the Cumbrian track yesterday.
Le Beau Bai was gaining his fourth success of the season for the Byton handler in the Lloyd Motor Group Novices’ Chase under conditional jockey Charlie Poste.
Sent into the lead between the last two fences, the 5-2 chance ploughed through the muddy ground to score by five lengths from Mount Sandel.
Lee explained: “He was pulled up in the four-miler on Wednesday and we were not going to declare him for this.
“But when I was tracking the decs on Friday morning, there was only one horse in the race at 9.55am – though another two came in after.
“It is a £10,000 race so I thought I had better put him in and if we felt he was all right when we got up here, then we would let him run. So it has all worked out.
“He is only a pony, but he jumps for fun. If the ground does not stay soft, though, that will be it for the season – he has done us proud.”
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