- Saturday, 20 February 2016 07:32
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
There is a big day of action to look forward to with jumps cards from Ascot, Haydock and Wincanton as well as an all-weather fixture from Lingfield. The stable has runners at Ascot and Haydock. Vieux Lion Rouge contests the Listed Handicap Chase at Ascot at 2.25pm - he unseated rider last time but was previously a good winner at Haydock. Meanwhile, juvenile Fingertips runs in the 3.00pm race which looks extremely competitive as you would expect of a race with £45,000 in prize money. He was in the process of running a big race when coming to grief at the last at Sandown last time but he gets in here on a nice weight of 10-2 and deserves his place in the line-up. Dynaste (pictured above) was disappointing last time out over timber but reverts to fences with a pair of first time blinkers and it will be interesting to see how he gets on against old foe Silviniaco Conti in the Betfair Chase at 3.35pm. What A Moment completes the line-up at 4.10pm and he is a promising individual.
- Friday, 19 February 2016 08:40
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
We have four meetings to look forward to this afternoon with jumps action from Sandown and Fakenham (who after inspecting at 7.30am have now set a second inspection for 10.30am) while there are all-weather flat fixtures from Lingfield and Wolverhampton - the stable has no runners this afternoon. We drew a blank yesterday with Soll putting in a somewhat laboured effort at Kelso where he finished third in the Ivan Straker Memorial Chase. He handles soft ground but perhaps he would just prefer it a bit better these days? Pilgrims Bay also finished third in the handicap hurdle, while Prideofthecastle was fourth at Leicester on only his second start over fences and he is another who looks likely to prefer better ground to me.
- Thursday, 18 February 2016 08:43
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
It was a memorable day for the stable and the Scudamore family at Musselburgh yesterday as Impulsive American bolted up by nine lengths in the maiden hurdle. The winner was the 1,000th success of Tom's career which is a marvellous achievement and he joins his father amongst others in the very exclusive band of people to have achieved this. In doing so they became the first father and son combination to ever achieve the feat. I thought I had just better mention this this morning otherwise Tom's wife Lottie will be on barking in my shell-like! Impulsive American won well and provided the handicapper does not go crazy, he looks as though he will be competitive in handicaps from this sort of mark.
- Wednesday, 17 February 2016 08:11
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
There are four meetings taking place this afternoon with jumps action from Towcester (who have survived an 8am inspection) and Musselburgh as well as all-weather flat cards from Kempton and Lingfield. The stable has runners at both jumps meetings and Tom Scudamore travels up to Scotland for the ride aboard Impulsive American in the 2.15pm race at Musselburgh. Our four year old has been consistent thus far without managing to get his head in front and he ran as well as ever last time out and gets in with only 10-11 due to his four year old's allowance. He certainly has the ability to win a race of this nature and the Racing Post have put him in as the jolly.
- Tuesday, 16 February 2016 08:27
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
The stable had another nice winner yesterday as Bella (pictured above) won the mares' novices' hurdle at Plumpton with the minimum of fuss under conditional jockey David Noonan. The biggest surprise was that she drifted to 11/10 having been long odds-on in the morning. It sometimes makes you wonder what is going on...it was better than having money in the bank! It was yet another excellent piece of placement by David who has now won three times with the mare and accumulated over £42,000 in prize money with her this season.
- Monday, 15 February 2016 08:51
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
This afternoon there are three meetings taking place with jumps action from Plumpton and Catterick (who survived an 8am inspection) as well as an all-weather flat fixture from Wolverhampton. David has a couple of runners at Catterick as he sends Miss Gotaway and Brook on the long journey north, while Bella runs at Plumpton. Miss Gotaway is the winner of three point-to-points and i thought that she posted an encouraging first run for the stable when third at Taunton on her seasonal reappearance. She can only improve for that and holds sound claims this afternoon. Our other runner at the meeting is Brook who won a hurdle at Newbury last season on heavy ground but has been largely disappointing since. Both are partnered by Tom Scudamore.
- Saturday, 13 February 2016 11:59
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
There are just two meetings taking place this afternoon with a jumps card at Exeter and an all-weather flat fixture from Southwell. Exeter have had plenty of rain (a surprise I know!) over the last few weeks so providing the meeting goes ahead David will have three runners; Dell 'Arca, Shotavodka and Lady Of Longstone. Tom Scudamore takes the mount aboard the first two, while Michael Heard takes 7lbs off of Lady Of Longstone's back. The ground is sure to be extremely testing so there are likely to be some slow motion finishes.
