Massannie Makes It Three!

There was a nice winner for the yard yesterday when Massannie scored in the colours of our stable sponsors Wayne and Sarah Clifford of Bathwick Tyres.  She won the mares' novices' hurdle with any amount in hand and is now unbeaten in three starts since joining us at Pond House and still looks to be improving at a rate of knots.  Massannie was homebred by Sarah out of her mare Bathwick Annie and she certainly looks to have a nice prospect here.  Meanwhile Kusadasi also ran with credit but was unable to follow-up last week's success switched to fences.  He was a little bit novicey at a couple of his fences and he may be suited by a slight step back in trip.

This afternoon there are four meetings taking place - three on the flat at Pontefract, Wolverhampton and Southwell as well as a jumps card at Uttoxeter.  The stable has one runner at the Staffordshire track - High Ville runs in the 9.15pm race and takes a big step up in trip.  A winner already this term at Exeter, hopefully the extra distance will bring about a bit of further improvement under Conor O'Farrell.  One thing is for sure, it is going to be a late finish for our staff by the time they get home tonight!

I see that champion jockey A P McCoy is against splitting the jockeys' title into two seperate championships.  It doesn't matter if they split it into three different championships - he would still win them all!  Personally I think they should give the jockeys a rest in the middle of the summer like they did in the old days...the funny thing is that everyone appears to agree apart from those clever people who oversee the running of the sport.

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I am looking forward to the fight between David Haye and Tyson Fury.  The bookies make Haye a 1/4 chance although I am not sure that he can win this fight.  Fury has a big size advantage and I don't think Hayes is 100% committed to the sport these days - in fact, he has only fought once in the last two years.  At odds of around 7/2 I will be looking to have a little wager on Fury.

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It's amazing to think that the qualifying rounds for the Champions League and Europa League are already upon us.  It is only 9th July and the football is already getting underway!