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Rebecca Menzies: doing well from Peter Beaumont’s old base near York

  PICTURE: Martin Lynch (racingpost.com/photos)  

 By David Ashforth 6:00PM 26 JAN 2016 

Wednesday racing: Bangor, Catterick, Kempton, Lingfield and Thurles

AT THE 1960 Olympics Abebe Bikila couldn’t find any running shoes that fitted him so he ran barefoot and won the marathon. Nude foot running hasn’t really caught on although there’s a Barefoot Runners Society, a Barefoot Running Magazine and an annual International Barefoot Running Day.

Zakatal is racing’s Bikila, having won shoeless at Wolverhampton on Monday. It wasn’t that he’d forgotten to put them on but that connections felt that he ran better without them, his feet having been specially trained.

Not many followed Bikila’s example and it’s unlikely that many will copy the (shoeless) path galloped on by Zakatal but if enough disciples emerge, Wolverhampton could stage a Barefoot Race, a Barefoot Championship and an International Barefoot Racing Day, all sponsored by the Anti-Farriers Association.

Rebecca Menzies, Zakatal’s trainer, is not as far as I know against shoes in principle and, indeed, wears them herself but when you are striving for success with a modest number of modest horses it helps to be open minded.

Hyperactive in France

It’s interesting to follow a new trainer’s progress and we can follow Menzies, 26 and formerly assistant to Ferdy Murphy, at Catterick today, where she has three runners. Two of them, Samson Collonges (1.50) and Halcyon Days (3.00), not being awash with ability, would need an inspirational talking to in order to magic them into the winner’s enclosure. On the other hand, if Halcyon Days gets round on his first attempt at chasing he’s assured of at least £667.80 because there are only three runners.

So it’s up to Tomkevi to excel in the £10,000 handicap hurdle (2.25). Tomkevi has not been with Menzies long, having spent most of his hyperactive career in France, where the five year-old ran 22 times between March 2014 and September 2015. That’s a lot of times and Menzies deserves credit for having won already with Tomkevi, on his latest appearance at Haydock.

He’ll relish the ground and might cope with a 5lb higher handicap mark but Tony Kelly, who rides most of the yard’s runners, is injured so it’s up to Brian Hughes to make Menzies’ day, and that of Messrs Howe and Oliver, the owners. Good luck.

This is only Menzies’ third season and she is doing well from Peter Beaumont’s old base at Foulrice Farm near York, where Beaumont, now 80 and still on the premises, trained the splendid Jodami to win the 1994 Cheltenham Gold Cup. Menzies has got a very good website and her staff look happy so let’s hope for the best.

Experience the key at Lingfield

That is also what the inexperienced (no more than ten winners) apprentices riding in the 4.15 at Lingfield will be hoping for. Georgia Cox, with nine winners, and Rhiain Ingram, with seven, are also the most experienced riders and their mounts – Clement and Blistering Dancer respectively – have good chances. Clement has been running consistently for John O’Shea while Blistering Dancer offered some encouragement on his first run for Tony Carroll a fortnight ago. Carroll is good at getting the most out of his horses.

Anyway, that’s what I think.

Do not miss Ashforth’s Angles every Monday to Thursday on racingpost.com and your mobile from 6pm

 

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