• David Pipe
    Welcome

    Welcome to our website, we hope you enjoy finding out more about Pond House, our fantastic training facilities and the great team we have behind the scenes. This is the place to come if you want the latest news from the yard, are interested in joining us as an owner, or just want to share in the fun and excitement of the season ahead.

  • Season Winners
    Season Winners

    The stable finished last season with big race victories at the Cheltenham Festival as well as in Aintree's Becher Chase and the Haydock Grand National Trial.  With success at this season's Cheltenham November meeting and the Grand National fixture at Aintree, courtesy of Mr Big Shot, we are currently on the 31 winner mark.
    Click here to see all of our 2017/18 winners.

     

  • David Pipe
    Video Tours

    Take a trip with our video tour of Pond House, it demonstrates not only the quality of the facilities we have to train horses, keeping them fit and healthy, but also why we have trained more winners at Pond House than any other National Hunt Yard in the country. Click here to view our Pond House facilities.

  • Horse Ownership
    Ownership

    The excitement of ownership is a thrill which is closer than you think. For an informal chat with David on the options open to you don’t hesitate to get in touch either via email on  david@davidpipe.com or give us a call on 01884 840715.  There's no hard sell and we look forward to hearing from you. For more information on ownership, please click here

NH Fixtures & Sales Dates

Fri Apr 20
Ayr, Fontwell, Southwell
Sat Apr 21
Ayr, Bangor
Sun Apr 22
Stratford, Wincanton
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Racing Post
Dorothy Paget

David's Update

Chester's Chat

Big Win For Big Shot!

Aintree’s Grand National fixture certainly served up a treat for racing fans with three days of excellent action despite the ground remaining extremely testing owing to the persistent rain. It was a good week for the stable too, with three winners on the week, including the success of Mr Big Shot (pictured above) in the first race at Aintree on National day. I am pleased to report that all of our runners returned safe and sound and with plenty more decent opportunities coming over the last fortnight of the season, we will continue to press on.  Read more...

One Runner At Cheltenham

Thursday, 19 April 2018 07:15
Written by Chester Barnes

There are four meetings taking place this afternoon with flat cards from Newmarket, Ripon and Newcastle, supported by a jumps fixture from Cheltenham.  David has one runner today as Mechelen contests the 2m1f mares' bumper at 5.35pm.  It looks like a decent contest with a 'bumper' field of 20 runners, so it is very competitive.  Mechelen produced a sound debut effort when runner-up at Taunton on heavy ground on her only start to date.  There are plenty in there with good form so she looks to have place claims at odds of around 20/1.  Tom Scudamore is in the saddle.  Tom also has an outside ride on the favourite earlier on the card, although at 6/1 I'm not sure I would want to be piling on...sorry Tom!

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