OPTIMUM RACING

Andrew Lowrie of Optimum Racing is ready for the Jumps season

Long before betting exchanges and reality shows, the BBC Grandstand cameras used to descend on Chepstow to provide the first TV coverage of the new NH season.
Although the fixture no longer commands terrestrial TV coverage, it is still regarded by many as the start of the Jumps season ‘proper’.
During the mid to late 1980s the feature steeplechase of the meeting was a three mile handicap, sponsored by Mercedes Benz. Broadheath, a brown gelding trained by David Barons, was a standing dish ...