Jack Andrews notches

up 400 point victories

IN addition to the elsewhere mentioned Constitution Hill, another graduate of Warren Ewing’s Bernice Stables to return to the No 1 spot over the extended Festive period was the Sunnyhill Stud-bred Call Me Early whose success came in the nine-runner maiden conditions race at the Thurlow Hunt point-to-point at Horseheath on Tuesday this week.

Third under Dara McGill in a four-year-old geldings’ maiden at Toomebridge in May on the second of two starts for Ewing, the Lucky Speed bay was then consigned to the Goffs UK Spring horses-in-training and point-to-point sale at Doncaster.

There, he was knocked down for £14,000 to Jack Andrews who was acting on behalf of the G&T Racing operation of his sister Gina and her husband Tom Ellis.

On Tuesday, Jack partnered Call Me Early to justify 2/1 favouritism by three lengths from the 2018 Ocovango gelding Highway Skyline and bring up a training treble on the day for Gina who rode the other pair. Two days earlier, at Chaddesley Corbett, Gina saddled four of the day’s seven winners and rode three of them herself including Master Templar whose three-parts of a length success in the ladies’ open marked the rider’s 400th point-to-point victory.