- Friday, 05 August 2016 07:14
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
Day five of our summer jumps sabbatical and there are five flat meetings taking place this afternoon. The action comes from Musselburgh, Brighton, Wolverhampton, Newmarket and Haydock. Despite the plenty of fixtures it hasn't stopped some of our domestic trainers seeking opportunities abroad - yesterday it was Jamie Osborne and Andrew Balding travelling to Ovrevoll, now trainer Charlie Hills tries his luck in Spain. He will run one in the 1m3f race at San Sebatian on Monday, it is worth over £30,000 to the winner and it should be warm and sunny. Sounds good to me.
- Thursday, 04 August 2016 07:06
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
Day four of our summer jumps sabbatical and there are six flat fixtures taking place this afternoon. The action comes from Brighton, Haydock, Yarmouth, Sandown, Newcastle and Wolverhampton. You would not believe it is August with the amount of non-runners owing to the changes in going overnight. The going at Brighton and Bath yesterday was good to soft, while over at Sligo it was heavy...so much for the great British summer!
- Wednesday, 03 August 2016 07:18
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
Day three of our summer jumps racing sabbatical and there are five cards on the level to look forward to. The action today comes from Pontefract, Brighton, Bath, Yarmouth and Kempton. The wooden spoon goes to Bath (why am I surprised) who offer just £28,000 in prize money across their seven race card. Surely the prize money cannot get any lower?
- Tuesday, 02 August 2016 07:08
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
Day two of our annual jumps sabbatical so the four meetings taking place today are all on the level with the action coming from Salisbury, Catterick, Nottingham and Chelmsford City. The most prize money on offer is over in Ireland with Cork offering a very healthy £167,000. Looking through the Irish card it is interesting to see Brendan Powell and Mick Channon have runners in the 8.25pm race - it is a Group 3 contest for fillies and mares. Champion jockey Silvestre de Sousa rides the Channon trained Harlequeen and the three year old has some good form and should go close.
- Monday, 01 August 2016 07:01
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
Today and in fact the whole week is all about the flat with the jumps action taking a break for a week. Today we have flat meetings at Ripon, Kempton, Windsor and Carlisle. There are two meetings in Ireland at Naas and Cork and they both have more prize money on offer than the cards over here and Cork is a jumps card. There are loads of runners at Cork, the 3.35pm race has 24 runners and three reserves! I always think having reserves is a good idea just in case any horses drop out. The card at Carlisle is a seven race fixture with all runners in every race being ridden by lady jockey's. Serena Brotherton looks to have a good book of rides and she is an amateur, but a very good one! There are quite a lot of professionals in action as well, Hayley Turner, Megan Nicholls, and Shelly Birkett to name a few, A likely winner on the Carlisle card for me is a horse called Honeysuckle Lil in the 7.15pm with Rachel Richardson on board. This girl can ride and I think she has a great chance of a winner.
- Sunday, 31 July 2016 00:00
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
There are three meetings taking place this afternoon with two flat fixtures from Chester and Chepstow and a jumps card from Market Rasen. Tom Scudamore and Conor O'Farrell have both picked up outside rides at Market Rasen and it is particularly good to see Conor back in action after a nasty fall a couple of weeks ago.
- Saturday, 30 July 2016 07:14
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
There is a busy day of racing ahead with no less than six meetings taking place. The bad news for fans of the jumps is that they are all on the flat with action coming from Doncaster, Goodwood, Hamilton, Lingfield, Newmarket and Thirsk. There are some tricky looking races at Goodwood this afternoon with the Stewards Cup and it's consolation race - both twenty eight runner sprint handicaps, talk about a commentator's nightmare. Having said that, I did say that Franklin D was a good thing in the nineteen runner Betfred Mile and he duly obliged...albeit just! According to bookmakers he was the best backed horse of the year, although we are only collecting thanks to a masterful ride from Ryan Moore.
