Horses for Sale
Four Winner Week
Saccary & Rian Corcoran
It has been a great week for the yard with four winners from our last six runners and we are now on four winners for the new season. October Hill got the ball rolling at Ffos Las last week under a fine ride from Rian Corcoran. Rian has actually been on board all our winners of late as Jack Tudor is currently not riding and serving a ban. October Hill has been very consistent since joining us from Ireland but was yet to get her head in front over hurdles. She had been placed a few times but did have to bounce back from a slightly lesser effort at Exeter last time. The handicapper had given her some help and with Rian’s five pound claim she duly took advantage showing a good turn of foot inside the final furlong. It was a competitive little race and all five runners held every chance from two out but she quickened up nicely close home to score a shade cosily. On this evidence she can be winning again this summer. Read more...
- Tuesday, 26 May 2026 06:58
- Written by G Edwards
Temperatures are soring but racing is keeping the show on the road by making some subtle changes to look after horses and staff. Yesterday the race times at Huntingdon were brought forwards to beat the worst of the heat and at Auteuil today they have also moved there timings to start much earlier this morning with racing than originally planned. There is plenty of water, fans and people on hand to help cool the horses after the races and they are not being asked to be in the parade ring too long at Bath this afternoon with ice lollies available for the jockeys! Lots of trainers will be travelling to the races earlier than they might normally so that the horses are not on the lorries in the main heat of the day. As one trainer said however, it is not really the heat they mind, in fact they probably cope better than us but its acclimatizing to the weather which is the hardest part - the sudden rise in temperatures in recent days is what takes a bit of getting used to, it is the change in temperature rather than how hot is is that probably affects us all as we are not used to it.
