'Welsh wizard' casts his spell Just a fortnight after his Iron Man won the racecourse's richest race of the year, Pembrokeshire trainer Peter Bowen was back to take Saturday afternoon's feature race at Market Rasen with Tommy Spar, backed from 11-2 to 11-4.

From: Grimsby Telegraph | Date: August 6, 2007 | Copyright information

Just a fortnight after his Iron Man won the racecourse's richest race of the year, Pembrokeshire trainer Peter Bowen was back to take Saturday afternoon's feature race at Market Rasen with Tommy Spar, backed from 11-2 to 11-4.

The whole sun-drenched card was sponsored by Embers and Tommy Spar, who won the race a year ago, fracturing a pastern in the process.

He repeated the victory, this time for jockey Paddy Brennan who produced a well-timed run from this fast ground gelding, ta...

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