- Friday, 23 September 2016 07:37
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
What a fantastic race at Perth yesterday! The champion bumper winners of the last couple of years, Moon Racer and Ballyandy served up a real treat in the novices' hurdle at the Scottish track, with Moon Racer prevailing by 3/4 length in a thrilling finish. As I said yesterday, this was probably the best novices' hurdle ever to take place at Perth and the pair will certainly go on to better things as the season progresses. I see that Moon Racer was trimmed to 10/1 favourite for the Supreme at Cheltenham but there is still plenty to be done before then. Meanwhile What A Moment ran creditably in the 3m novices' hurdle to finish runner-up and it looks only a matter of time before he is winning something similar.
- Thursday, 22 September 2016 07:14
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
There are four meetings taking place this afternoon with flat cards from Newmarket, Pontefract and Chelmsford City while over the jumps there is a tasty looking card from Perth. David has three runners; Moon Racer, Impulsive American and What A Moment. Moon Racer (pictured above) makes his much anticipated hurdles debut in the novices' contest at 3.20pm where he takes on Ballyandy, who like Moon Racer, won the Champion Bumper at the Cheltenham Festival. These are probably the two best novices' ever to run at Perth and I reckon it is going to put a few people on the door. It should be an exciting race, but hopefully Moon Racer will be able to come out on top on his way to better things.
- Wednesday, 21 September 2016 07:06
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
There are four meetings taking place this afternoon with fixtures on the flat from Goodwood, Redcar and Kempton while there is a jumps card from Perth. David has one runner this afternoon at Perth with Mango Cap in the 4.40pm race, a three mile handicap hurdle. The Post forecast him the 5/1 second favourite which is surprising given he has not recaptured his smart French form as yet. He is up in trip and down in grade so hopefully that will help to bring about some improvement - stable jockey Tom Scudamore is in the saddle. Meanwhile champion jockey Richard Johnson looks to hold a good chance in the 4.05pm race aboard Western Home for Gordon Elliott.
- Tuesday, 20 September 2016 07:33
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
There are four meetings taking place this afternoon with three flat fixtures from Beverley, Lingfield and Ffos Las while there is a jumps card from Warwick. Typically the best card in terms of prize money is in Ireland where the Ballinrobe card has over £100,000 up for grabs. David has two runners at Warwick; Tobacco Road and For 'N' Against. Tobacco Road goes in the novices' hurdle for which he is around the 12/1 mark - he hasn't really translated his flat form to hurdles yet and would need to improve to figure on what he has shown thus far. Meanwhile, For 'N' Against has been in good form this term, winning twice and he reverts to hurdles for this 3m2f handicap from a slightly lower rating than his chase mark. He has sound place claims if he reverts his ability back to the smaller obstacles.
- Monday, 19 September 2016 07:30
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
It was another good weekend for the stable with the success of Gabrial The Great at Uttoxeter yesterday. I thought that conditional jockey David Noonan gave our gelding an excellent ride - he can be a bit keen (the horse that is, rather than David!) and he did a great job of keeping him settled at the back of the field before coming with a well-timed run to score a shade cosily. Racing manager Jason Maguire was also on hand and he too thought the young pilot had done a good job.
- Saturday, 17 September 2016 00:00
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
This afternoon there are two jumps cards from Uttoxeter and Plumpton...I know I keep going on about it but it seems a little ridiculous that one of these two meetings didn't take place yesterday. Or maybe I am just missing something? David has runners at both cards today with Mr Burgees competing at Plumpton in the 3.00pm race. He makes his debut for the stable this afternoon and Tom Scudamore is in the saddle - he has some consistent form and hopefully the 'one ride rule' will work today! Meanwhile at Uttoxeter we run Nice Thoughts in the 2m4f handicap hurdle and Gabrial The Great (pictured above) in the 2m4f handicap chase and David Noonan takes the mount aboard the pair and he claims a useful 3lbs off their backs.
- Saturday, 17 September 2016 07:18
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
What an amazing performance from the versatile and tough Impulsive American to win on the level at Ayr yesterday. It was only six weeks ago that he was competing over hurdles and fences at Perth! He never seems to run a bad race under any code and probably wants better ground than this to boot. He was given a good ride by jockey Jim Crowley and it is easy to see why he is favourite to land this season's jockey's championship. The Racing Post are also complimentary in their write-up of the race and say that our four year old 'must be a pleasure to own', not like Celtic, hey Sean?!
