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I start my week in London with Gerry Supple for our annual trip to the capital for the Horse Writers Awards in London. We are kindly invited by Mike Vince and are joined on the table by Patrick Mullins and a few other special guests. We take the 9.30am train for Tiverton Parkway and are in Paddington in just two hours which is not bad going! We have a train booked for on the way home and I shall let you know next week if we make it home in time…we have been known to miss our planned return and we even had stay overnight on one occasion when the weather was bad so who knows what may happen! Read more...
- Thursday, 04 December 2025 08:19
- Written by G Edwards
There are three jumps meetings today with some good racing in prospect at Leicester, Market Rasen and Wincanton. We have one runner at Market Rasen, Chemical Dave who runs in the bumper on the card at 3.20pm and Jack Tudor rides. There are only seven runners but it is a competitive little race and we are about 5/1 third best in the betting. Chemical Dave has a nice pedigree and is related to some good hurdlers. He has just the one runner in a bumper at Doncaster last season for which he was sent off favourite but he was as green as grass and was on and off the bridle throughout and did as well to finish as close as he did in the end! He has grown up a lot over the summer and while we are hoping the ground isn't too soft he should run okay. He has ability and a likeable attitude and it will be good to see how he gets on today but he certainly has a future over jumps whatever today's result.
