128^th running of the Velká pardubická withs Česká pojišťovna
                      Steeplechase crosscountry, Listed, 6900 metres ,CZK 5 000 000

Sunday, October 14th 2018

128th running of the Velka Pardubicka with Česka pojišťovna

PROGRAMME OF EVENTS

11:00    Opening Ceremony

:40 – 8^th race (040801)
128. Velká pardubická with Česká pojišťovna
Crosscountry steeplechase - stakes Listed – 6-y-o+ - 6900 metres – CZK 5 000 000 Kč

Just one supplementary entry for the Velka Pardubicka was announced on September 27^th.

All of the efforts that went into European Jockeys’ Cup day at Prague Velká Chuchle racecourse on September 22^nd were rewarded by a wonderful afternoon of horseracing, certainly the best raceday in the modern era of flat racing in the Czech Republic. Despite the discouraging weather forecast, it was a pleasantly warm, dry afternoon.

 Trainer V

The draw for starting gates and for the allocation of jockeys for European Jockeys’ Cup day (Saturday, September 22) were made today at the Clarion Old Town Hotel in Prague. The list of horses and jockeys, and the starting box numbers, can be found on http://www.dostihyjc.cz/startky.php – click on to 22.9 Praha, on the left.

The first race on EJC day, Saturday September 22^nd, will be at 13.30, and it will be the celebrity race, featuring Josef Váňa senior as a rider in a flat race.

This September newsletter has caused me some trouble. I normally begin the newsletters with comments on the weather in the last four weeks, and with events that took place within that same period of time. After that, there is usually something about coming events.

Thirty-three-year-old Czech jockey Václav Janáček rode his 1 000^th winner on Friday, August 10^th, when he won the last race of the afternoon at the traditional three-day meeting on the beach at Sanlúcar de Barrameda, a resort in southern Spain. He is only the second Czech jockey ever to have reached a four-figure number of winners, and he reached this mark on a 6-y-o gelding, Mind the Gap.