Jockey Fanning takes season total to 62
Joe Fanning took his score for the season to 62 with a double on Tangled Up In Blue and Murghem at Haydock and is well on course to setting a new personal best before the term is out.
Fanning rides at Haydock again today and at Musselburgh on Sunday and he left for home reflecting that he might well have already reached that target but for a spell out through injury.
He said with a wry smile: “I had a month out with a wrist injury so that was a blow, but on the otherhand I have not done so badly because I am still only nine short of my best (71) last year.
“So with a bit of luck I must have a good chance of beating that score before the Turf season ends on November 9.”
Tangled Up In Blue, who carries the colours of Timeform’s Reg Griffin and Jim McGrath, had finished only seventh over a longer trip at Chester on Wednesday, but things went the way of the Jamie Osborne-trained colt in the Telindus Nursery and he won decisively.
McGrath explained: “We hoped he would win at Chester 48 hours ago, but he got a bump early and did not get the best of runs, but then came to have a chance and then did not stay the seven furlongs – that is horses for you!
“Jamie rang up yesterday morning and said there were only six declarations for today’s race and said did we want to run again as the horse had not had a hard race at Chester and that the ground was right for him – so it is all down to the trainer.”
