Crus Set For King George

There is no racing taking place now until Boxing Day (and that includes in Ireland!), but what a bumper day of action it promises to be with nine meetings scheduled to take place, weather permitting.  Although Huntingdon has been lost to the elements there could still be eight meetings over the sticks at Fontwell, Ffos Las, Kempton, Market Rasen, Sedgefield, Towcester, Wetherby and Wincanton as well as the usual all-weather flat card at Wolverhampton.  The highlight is the King George and David will be represented by Grands Crus (pictured above winning at the corresponding meeting last year) and Junior who was supplemented last week.  Dynaste will take his chance in the Grade One Feltham Novices' Chase and you can see a Christmas greeting video from him on the next page.

There is no racing taking place now until Boxing Day (and that includes in Ireland!), but what a bumper day of action it promises to be with nine meetings scheduled to take place, weather permitting.  Although Huntingdon has been lost to the elements there could still be eight meetings over the sticks at Fontwell, Ffos Las, Kempton, Market Rasen, Sedgefield, Towcester, Wetherby and Wincanton as well as the usual all-weather flat card at Wolverhampton.  The highlight is the King George and David will be represented by Grands Crus (pictured above winning at the corresponding meeting last year) and Junior who was supplemented last week.  Dynaste will take his chance in the Grade One Feltham Novices' Chase and you can see a Christmas greeting video from him at the bottom of the page.

What a cracking run from Dan Breen in the Ladbroke Hurdle at Ascot on Saturday to finish a close-up third.  Sent off a relatively unconsidered 25/1 chance, he looked as though he might almost win between the last two, but still picked up almost £16,000 in prize money under a good ride from young Frank Hayes.  Frank gets a good tune out of Dan Breen and he doesn't know how to run a bad race - he certainly deserves to pick up a nice prize before long.

I can’t believe that Gerry Supple is only 35 today.  I am sure he was hiding away when I first started at Pond House and that was over thirty years ago!  He must have been in one of the stables with three wise men (although I don’t know who that would be!) standing around him!  I wonder if he gets two lots of presents?

My Irish form man was certainly in good spirits yesterday after tipping four winners from seven runners…hopefully that will have helped to pay for the Christmas cheer!  There will certainly be plenty of cheer in the Barnes household after my football treble on Chelsea, Liverpool and West Brom came to fruition yesterday.

If you are travelling anywhere over the Christmas period (especially on the trains) make sure that you check the service is running first.  Many trains south of Taunton have been cancelled over the past few days due to flooding and with plenty more rain forecast it will only get worse.

Merry Christmas from Dynaste! from David Pipe on Vimeo.