Mark Wallis passed the 70 open winner landmark for the year at Romford with a double on Friday night, though the track’s leading open race performer drew a blank.

The Wallis double came courtesy of sprinter Tread Lightly (Head Bound-Hometown Honey, Jul 14) and star stayer Aayamza Breeze (Aero Majestic-Kiltrea Ally, Feb 15) but Calco Flyer was unable to add to his nine victories to date when beaten by Azza Boy in a 400 open.

The meeting also featured a four-timer from Paul Young. The Wickford handler, who sent out 16 runners on the night : Tookmaker Rambo (11-10f), Young Minella (5-4f), Glamorous Sharif (1-1f) and Thatchers Romeo (8-1).

 

(The meeting also produced an interesting insight into breeding. British bred youngster Westmead Jess (Coolavanny Bert-Westmead Sula, Jul 15) ran her first qualifying trial at Henlow almost six months ago. She led all the way and clocked a very moderate 28.93 for the 460m. She qualified into bottom grade, A10, and was beaten in her first three races.

The black pup finally got her head in front in her fourth outing winning an A10 in a career best, 28.45 (+20). It took her two races to win an A9, four to win an A8 (28.29) followed by an A7 in 27.90. On Friday, in her 17th race and second visit to Romford, Jess landed a maiden open in 24.37. To quote an old adage ‘they are not machines’ – Ed)

Wallis 30 488 £25,400 70
Young 20 428 £8,500 31
Mullins D 15 431 £7,400 28
Hutton 8 535 £5,950 22
Gaskin 13 345 £5,100 19
Janssens 10 517 £4,950 18
Simmonds 12 421 £4,550 17
Boon 6 525 £1,700 7
Mullins J 6 600 £2,450 7
Pruhs 3 435 £1,500 5

Winners

CALCO FLYER £2,750 400 9
BARNFIELD ANGEL £2,000 400 7
CLONDOTY ALEX £2,450 375 7
MASHMAD EYEBROWS £1,750 400 7
ROSWELL ROMANOV £7,000 575 7
MEMPHIS MAFIA £1,750 575 6
CHOPCHOP MABEL £1,250 225 5
FIRE HEIGHT RAY £1,450 400 5
JET STREAM SNOWY £1,500 575 5
CHUBBYS OAK £1,000 400 4
SAFFRONS TINA £1,250 575 4
YOUNG BLITZ £1,000 400 4
AJLO LEGALBEAGLE £800 400 3
AZZA BOY £750 400 3
BARRICANE HAZARD £750 400 3
DIABLO £800 400 3
PASS TO GO £750 400 3
PIEMANS FLASH £750 400 3
RIBBLE AON £1,000 575 3
RISING RASCAL £1,000 400 3
SLICK SEBASTIAN £1,000 750 3
WILDFIRE LIN £700 400 3
WILLY WHITESOCKS £750 575 3