Thursday Jul 28, 2011
The draw for the Blue Square Stewards' Cup has paired the Lambs with a horse named Secret Witness
BIG SPENDING FLEETWOOD BAG ‘NASRI'
It's been one of the on-off transfer sagas of the summer but it was far easier for Fleetwood Town to land ‘Nasri' than their Lancashire football counterparts from Manchester. The draw for the Blue Square Stewards' Cup has paired the Cod Army with the Dandy Nicholls trained 5-year-old...
Blue Square, the bookmaker which sponsors the three Football Conference divisions, allocate a horse from their prestigious Glorious Goodwood race to every club in the Blue Square Bet Premier, North and South. The horse which wins the valuable six furlong sprint - which takes place at the Sussex track at 3.45 on Saturday (live on Channel 4) - will earn one club a cash windfall on the eve of the new season. Blue Square will give the club that ‘owns' the winner £2000 plus the equivalent of a £100 bet at the Blue Square SP on their runner. Last year Droylsden from the Blue Square Bet North scooped a huge £4200 when Evens And Odds scored by a narrow margin at 22/1 from AFC Wimbledon's Johnny Mudball.
Fleetwood's Nasri is currently a 20/1 chance with the sponsors to score on the famous Downs. Hoof It and Mac's Power are the joint-favourites at 7/1. The former, owned by professional golfer Lee Westwood and his agent Chubby Chandler, has been paired with Workington from the Blue Square Bet North. Mac's Power will be running for Blue Square Bet South outfit Havant & Waterlooville who will no doubt have many supporters present at their local track.
A random draw was made at Goodwood on Wednesday morning and the top 68 entries in the race were allocated between the clubs. A maximum of 28 runners will go to post on Saturday, but there will be an extra chance to win for any clubs who miss out on the main event. This year, for the first time, a special consolation race will be run on the same day. The bluesquare.com Stewards' Sprint Stakes will go off at 2.05 (also live on Channel 4) and will contain 28 horses which didn't make the cut for the original race. Any club with a horse in the consolation race will win £1000 if their runner is successful, with the extra boost of the equivalent winnings from a £100 bet on that horse at the exclusive Blue Square SP.
The full draw is as follows:
Club | Horse |
AFC Telford United | We Have A Dream |
Alfreton Town | Fathsta |
Altrincham | Parisian Pyramid |
Barrow | Golden Desert |
Basingstoke | Pastoral Player |
Bath City | Irish Heartbeat |
Bishop's Stortford | Victoire De Lyphar |
Blyth Spartans | Ancient Cross |
Boreham Wood | Kuanyao |
Boston United | Thunderball |
Braintree Town | Kanaf |
Bromley | Sohraab |
Cambridge United | El Viento |
Chelmsford City | Advanced |
Colwyn Bay | Everymanforhimself |
Corby Town | Lui Rei |
Darlington | Mister Hughie |
Dartford | Cape Vale |
Dorchester | Edinburgh Knight |
Dover Athletic | Noverre To Go |
Droylsden | Tajneed |
Eastbourne Borough | Dubai Media |
Eastleigh | Baby Strange |
Eastwood Town | Evens And Odds |
Ebbsfleet United | Docofthebay |
Farnborough | R Woody |
FC Halifax Town | Confessional |
Fleetwood Town | Nasri |
Forest Green Rovers | Swiss Cross |
Gainsborough Trinity | Johannes |
Gateshead | Lutine Bell |
Gloucester City | Racy |
Grimsby Town | Tax Free |
Guiseley | Sioux Rising |
Hampton & Richmond | Mon Cadeaux |
Harrogate Town | Corporal Maddox |
Havant & Waterlooville | Mac's Power |
Hayes & Yeading United | Global City |
Hinckley United | Tiddliwinks |
Histon | Mac Gille Eoin |
Hyde | Dafeef |
Kettering Town | Swiss Dream |
Kidderminster Harriers | Secret Asset |
Lincoln City | Yer Woman |
Luton Town | Novellen Lad |
Maidenhead United | Fol Hollow |
Mansfield Town | Quest For Success |
Newport County | Free For All |
Nuneaton Town | Dungannon |
Salisbury City | Joseph Henry |
Solihull Moors | Brave Prospector |
Southport | Courageous |
Staines Town | Cape To Rio |
Stalybridge Celtic | Rain Delayed |
Stockport County | Mymumsaysimthebest |
Sutton United | Crown Choice |
Tamworth | Secret Witness |
Thurrock | Humidor |
Tonbridge Angels | Atlantic Sport |
Truro City | Five Star Junior |
Vauxhall Motors | High Standing |
Welling United | Colonel Mak |
Weston-super-Mare | Son Of The Cat |
Woking | Medicean Man |
Worcester City | Lexi's Hero |
Workington | Hoof It |
Wrexham | Jimmy Styles |
York City | Fitz Flyer |
The official declarations for the race will be made at 11am on Thursday morning. At 12noon on the same day Stockport County manager Didi Hamann will make the draw for stall positions for the Blue Square Stewards' Cup in the parade ring at Goodwood. The former German international will be hoping to pull out a kind number for his club's horse Mymumsaysimthebest - an outsider trained by Gary Moore - in order to boost his transfer funds for the upcoming Blue Square Bet Premier campaign.
The latest entries and news will appear on http://www.bluesqfootball.com/ and the latest prices for the race are available on http://www.bluesq.com/.
