THERE is very little National Hunt racing of great merit at this time of the year, though Uttoxeter stages a rare blacktype race over jumps, the Listed Summer Cup Handicap Chase.

It saw the familiar colours of JP McManus in the winners’ enclosure after the Michael Rowland-bred 10-year-old Jerrysback landed his first blacktype win. He has been placed a number of times in graded chases. A winning graduate of the Irish point-to-point scene, Jerrysback was sold for €11,000 to Richard Rohan as a newly-turned yearling at Goffs, and to Ian Ferguson later the same year for a profitable €28,000 at Tattersalls Ireland.