Flavour Maker cooks up a winning recipe at Kempton park!

Flavour Maker broke his maiden in game fashion on Thursday night in the 7 furlong Improved Bet Builder handicap at Kempton Park, sharing the spoils with Thorntonledale Max in a closely contested dead heat finish. 

Having shown consistent form since his close second at Salisbury in May, Flavour Maker got off the mark under a composed ride from Ray Dawson and the Roger Varian Team. Having remained prominent throughout the early stages, Flavour Maker was passed at the 3F pole but rallied gamely to edge closer to the leader Thorntonledale Max with the winning post in sight. As they crossed the finish line, nothing could separate the pair and they both were declared joint winners. 

He stayed on incredibly well in the final stages and looks as though he will relish a step up to a mile, which will give him plenty of options going forwards!

Time Form Review

Time: 87.20s Closing Sectional: (3.00f): 36.00s


FLAVOUR MAKER (IRE) chased leaders, pushed along over 2f out, kept on well, grabbed share of spoils.


A controversial ending to a run-of-the-mill 0-70, the main talking point being the 18-day suspension handed out to Callum Shepherd who, in the opinion of the stewards, failed to ride out to the winning post on Thorntonledale Max, one of the horses that dead-heated for first place, a decision that looks harsh enough on the face of it given the proximity to the winning post and the lack of momentum lost, but all the more so on the back of James Doyle escaping any censure for a similar event that occured at Windsor 2 evening previously and while the protection of punters should always be paramount to the policing of the sport, such a lengthy punishment seems draconian and not befitting of the offence.