First-placed finishes at double at Musselburgh for Hawick jockey Craig Nichol
Hawick jockey Craig Nichol was a winner at the double at Musselburgh today, December 8, on You Did and Passing Pleasure.
The former was first past the post by a short head in the 2.15pm Nairn’s Oatcakes Handicap Hurdle at 10-3 and the latter by over six lengths an hour later in the Musselburgh Annual Membership Handicap Hurdle at 2-1.
You Did, trained by Brian Ellison in North Yorkshire, earned £3,697 for his win over two miles and almost eight furlongs, and Passing Pleasure, a fellow five-year-old bay gelding entered by Cheshire’s Oliver Greenall and Josh Guerriero, landed the same payout for winning his near-two-mile-four-furlong race.
The earlier race saw all top-three places go to Hawick jockeys, with Jamie Hamilton second on Leader Wing for North Yorkshire trainer Gillian Boanas and Bruce Lynn third on Artic Mann for Nick Alexander’s Fife stables, followed by Jedburgh’s Callum Bewley in fourth on Coral Blue for Dumfries and Galloway’s Daragh Bourke.
Nichol also took two second places and a third at the East Lothian meeting – respectively on Gonnino for Gary Rutherford’s Camptown yard, with victory going to Danny McMenamin on Newport, trained by Iain Jardine at Carrutherstown; Disguisedlimit for Greenall and Guerriero, just over a length behind Cheshire trainer Donald McCain junior’s Rossbridge, ridden by Theo Gillard; and Cowboy Cooper for Donald Whillans’ Hawick stables, with McMenamin first on Benefit Ben for Adam Nicol and Bewley second on Uptown Harry for another Northumbrian yard, Jane Walton’s.
McMenamin claimed a further third place on Elusive Warrior for Kelso trainer Sandy Thomson.
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