- Tuesday, 29 March 2016 07:08
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
There are three meetings taking place this afternoon with jumps action from Southwell and Hexham as well as an all-weather flat card from Wolverhampton. The stable has no runners this afternoon although conditional jockey David Noonan (who was on the mark yesterday at Market Rasen) looks to have picked up another decent outside ride at Southwell as he is aboard favourite Loves Destination in the 4.40pm race for trainer Chris Gordon. David was aboard when he won last time and a follow-up looks to be on the cards. He has had a real breakthrough season with 34 winners in total and while he turned conditional some time ago now, David had the amateur jockeys' championship sewn up long before Christmas - a most promising young rider.
- Monday, 28 March 2016 07:41
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
What an incredible performance from Lady Of Longstone to win the mares' final at Haydock on Saturday under an excellent front-running ride from Michael Heard. The six year old won £30,000...you can't half buy some flour and pastry with that sort of 'dough'! I can just see the office filled up with cakes now! I did say that she had each way claims and just for a change Mrs Barnes listened to me and had £2 each way on at 25/1...bless her, you would have thought that she had won the National Lottery.
- Sunday, 27 March 2016 00:00
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
This afternoon there are three meetings taking place with jumps action from Plumpton and Sedgefield as well as an all-weather flat card from Wolverhampton. David has three runners at Plumpton; Rathealy, Carqalin and Still Together. It is amazing how quickly the ground changes at this time of year and with rain forecast, it is important that you check the prevailing going before having a wager. On paper it looks as though all of our runners are going to need to improve on their latest efforts in order to finish, although with the stable in such good form that is not beyond the realms of possibility.
- Saturday, 26 March 2016 08:15
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
With Stratford abandoned earlier in the week due to waterlogging it leaves us with four meetings to look forward to this afternoon. The action comes from Haydock, Newton Abbot and Carlisle over jumps while there is an all-weather flat card from Kempton. David runs Port Navas at Wincanton and Lady Of Longstone, Bella and Heath Hunter at Haydock where it is finals day for the inaugural "Challenger Series" aimed at bringing some welcome prize-money to those mid-tier horses. Lady Of Longstone and Bella (pictured above) both contest the mares' final over 2m3f and they have both been real money-spinners this term, winning seven races between them - they both appear to hold small each way claims.
- Friday, 25 March 2016 07:00
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
With Musselburgh abandoned it means that we are left with just two all-weather cards from Lingfield and Wolverhampton for Good Friday. Lingfield's card isn't bad mind you, with over £1 million in prize money up for grabs, while even Wolverhampton have put up some decent money. I find it hard to believe that on a day like today when most people have the day off, we don't have a jumping card on - I suppose for those fans of jumping, there is at least the Lambourn Open Day to look forward to, let's hope they get some good weather for that.
- Thursday, 24 March 2016 08:21
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
Another day, another winner for the stable! David really does have the string in rude health at the moment and he could probably win with the stable cat right now! What a difference a bit of decent ground can make. Epic Warrior was successful in the three mile novices' handicap chase at Warwick yesterday under an excellent ride from Conor O'Farell and it was good to see the colours of the smartest owner in racing; Stuart Mercer carried to victory - he is certainly a snappy dresser. Epic Warrior has been hunting and it certainly looks as though it has helped to freshen him up...perhaps I could do with going hunting myself? That is a winner every day this week - let's hope that it continues today as David has one runner at Chepstow.
- Wednesday, 23 March 2016 08:28
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
There was another winner yesterday; Closer To Home - no, that is the name of the horse! He was successful yesterday in the handicap hurdle under an excellent ride from a persistent Michael Heard - I did say that I thought the better ground may help him and so it proved. Sometimes I wish that I listened to what I say! He looks as though he may get further and he could follow-up under a penalty while the ground is still a bit livelier - he has a couple of other entries coming up so it would be no surprise to see him turned out again. Once again, Michael Heard looked well worth his 5lbs claim and he really should be getting more outside rides.
