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Pardubice racecourse has announced its ‘conception’ for racing in 2015. The Velka Pardubicka will be held on the second Sunday in October, its usual date. There will be 10 racing days.
The winter months should be quiet in Czech racing. There will be no racing here until next April, and few trainers have horses that they want to run abroad and conditions for training the horses intensively indoors or on an all-weather track. Although our horses ran in December only at Deauville and at Marseille Pont des Vivaux, in France, and at Grosseto, in Italy, some pleasing successes were achieved.
Josef Bartoš is celebrating his first jockeys’ championship title in Italy. However the postponed decision on a disqualification at Milan may turn out, his win on Barnabo in the last race of the jumps racing season on December 17th means that the Czech jockey does not have to wait any longer.
In the last race on the last afternoon of the 2014 Italian racing season over fences, at Grosseto on December 17th, Josef Bartoš needed to ride the winner to be sure of winning the Italian jockeys’ championship. He achieved this by riding Barnabo to victory.
No horseracing planned for Ebreichsdorf in 2015
Quite near the end of November, I wondered whether I had anything to write for my monthly newsletter, and whether I should just offer a short apology instead of a newsletter this time, or even write nothing – on the assumption that almost no-one would notice.
Czech owners, trainers and jockeys have for some years thought of France as a land of opportunity, and more and more of them have done their reconnaissance work and are ready to cash in. There is nowadays considerable interest in the provincial courses in northeastern France, which are not too far away, and offer winnable races with good prizemoney, by our standards.
Greg Wroblewski finished as private trainer for Pegas at Zhoř at the end of October, and will now be available as a public trainer. There is a strong rumour that Michal Lisek will take over at Zhoř, and a strong denial that Čestmír Olehla will take on the job. Michal Lisek trained at Prague Velka Chuchle until 2013, and has spent the last year in the UK.
Most years, there are clear signs by the end of October that winter is coming to the Czech Republic, and that the horseracing season is over. Not this year. We have had a series of warm and pleasant Saturday and Sunday racedays throughout October, though admittedly it has been getting dark and cooling down much earlier in the day than in early autumn.
