The Gripper (IRE)
Owner: The Hobb's Choice Partnership Trainer: Mrs M Hobbs Sex: gelding Age: 7
Breeding: City Honours / Peacefull River (Over The River)
Form Summary
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Starts | Wins | 2nds | 3rds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good | 1 | |||
| Good (Good to Firm in places; Flat; Good) | 1 | |||
| Good (Yielding in places) | 1 | 1 | ||
| Good to Soft (Soft in places) | 2 | 1 | ||
| Good to Yielding | 1 | |||
| Good to Yielding (Soft in places) | 1 | |||
| Heavy | 4 | 1 | ||
| Soft | 1 | |||
| Soft (Good to Soft in places) | 1 | 1 | ||
| Soft (Soft to Heavy in places) | 1 | |||
| Yielding (Hurdles: Good to Yielding, Yielding in places) | 1 | |||
| Yielding (Yielding to Soft in places) | 1 | |||
| Yielding to Soft | 1 | |||
| Totals | 17 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Race History
| Date | Course | Going | Distance | Class | Race Winner | Weight | Position | Jockey | SP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Jan 2011 | Warwick | Good to Soft (Soft in places) | 3m 1f | 3 | Thelobstercatcher | 10st 6lbs | PulledUp of 15 | Peter Carberry | |
| 13 Jan 2011 | Hereford | Heavy | 2m 6f 110y | 4 | The Gripper | 10st 7lbs | 1 of 10 | Peter Carberry | 7/1 |
| tracked leaders, went 2nd 8th, led approaching 2 out, soon ridden, pressed last, stayed on well | |||||||||
| 31 Dec 2010 | Warwick | Soft (Good to Soft in places) | 2m 3f | 4 | Eastwell Smiles | 11st 7lbs | 3 of 12 | Peter Carberry | 11/1 |
| in touch, pushed along after 3rd, outpaced 4 out, went moderate 3rd after next, no chance with leading pair | |||||||||
| 18 Nov 2010 | Hereford | Good to Soft (Soft in places) | 2m 4f | 4 | Monsieur Cadou | 11st 5lbs | 2 of 16 | Mr J Mahot | 80/1 |
| prominent on outside, led and not fluent 2 out, headed approaching last, stayed on same pace | |||||||||
| 05 Oct 2010 | Tipperary | Yielding (Yielding to Soft in places) | 2m 4f | 0 | Island Wood | 11st 12lbs | PulledUp of 19 | A P Crowe | |
| 20 Aug 2010 | Killarney | Good to Yielding | 2m 4f | 0 | Winners Toast | 11st 1lbs | 15 of 21 | A P Crowe | 20/1 |
| chased leaders to halfway, soon ridden and weakened, tailed off | |||||||||
| 17 Feb 2010 | Punchestown | Soft | 2m 6f | 0 | Cayo Levantado | 11st 4lbs | 16 of 22 | A P Crowe | 25/1 |
| towards rear for most, never a factor | |||||||||
| 31 Dec 2009 | Tramore | Heavy | 2m 4f | 0 | Without The Bop | 11st 7lbs | 8 of 16 | I J Power | 20/1 |
| always towards rear, completely tailed off | |||||||||
| 14 Oct 2009 | Punchestown | Yielding (Hurdles: Good to Yielding, Yielding in places) | 2m 4f | 0 | Our Monty | 11st 2lbs | 19 of 25 | A P Crowe | 33/1 |
| never better than mid-division | |||||||||
| 19 Sep 2009 | Listowel | Good (Good to Firm in places; Flat; Good) | 2m | 0 | Tenormore | 11st 2lbs | of 18 | Reserve 2 | |
| 07 Sep 2009 | Clonmel | Heavy | 2m | 0 | Vision Of Glory | 11st 4lbs | 4 of 18 | A P Crowe | 16/1 |
| tracked leaders, 5th 3 out, soon ridden, kept on same pace from 2 out | |||||||||
| 31 Aug 2009 | Downpatrick | Good to Yielding (Soft in places) | 2m 2f 110y | 0 | The Shepherd | 11st 4lbs | 14 of 15 | S J Hassett | 33/1 |
| always behind | |||||||||
| 15 May 2009 | Cork | Good | 2m | 0 | Wickham Street | 11st 12lbs | 16 of 22 | Reserve 2 | 33/1 |
| always towards rear | |||||||||
| 28 Apr 2009 | Punchestown | Soft (Soft to Heavy in places) | 2m | 0 | Imperial Cascade | 11st 7lbs | 19 of 25 | Mr A T Duff | 25/1 |
| chased leaders, 10th halfway, weakened over 4f out | |||||||||
| 19 Apr 2009 | Tramore | Good (Yielding in places) | 2m | 0 | Wickham Street | 12st | 3 of 15 | Ms N Carberry | 8/1 |
| tracked leaders, 4th 2 1/2f out, soon ridden, kept on one paced over 1f out | |||||||||