- Wednesday, 20 May 2015 07:32
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
There are five meetings taking place this afternoon with flat fixtures from Ayr, Lingfield and Kempton, while there is jumps action from Warwick and Southwell. We have two runners at Warwick - Tom Scudamore is aboard Bella who goes in the valuable four year old fillies' handicap hurdle, while Weather Babe (pictured above) tries to follow-up her recent success in the 3m1f handicap hurdle. Conor O'Farrell takes the ride on Weather Babe while Taj Badalandabad is now a non-runner in the same race.
- Tuesday, 19 May 2015 07:25
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
The stable had a nice winner yesterday when Vieux Lion Rouge won on his chasing debut at Towcester. He stayed on nicely to win by three lengths and can only improve with this experience under his belt. The runner-up Simply The West looks like an interesting one for next time as he did not have a straight forward passage when his tack became tangled after an early error. He looks like a winner waiting to happen to me.
- Monday, 18 May 2015 07:27
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
What about Ballynagour?! He absolutely bolted up in the Grade Two Prix la Barka at Auteuil on Saturday under Tom Scudamore and picked up £61,000 for his trouble. What an S.P. as well - the Racing Post made him a 15/2 chance, while the Paris-Mutuel returned 15.9/1! Judged on this, he would have to have sound claims in the French Champion Hurdle at the track in three weeks time. David took Leanne with him to Paris and I wouldn't mind betting that she has already spent the winning percentage on a new hat for Royal Ascot!
- Saturday, 16 May 2015 08:00
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
There are six meetings taking place this afternoon with flat cards at Newbury, Doncaster, Newmarket and Thirsk supported by jumping fixtures from Uttoxeter and Bangor. David left early this morning to catch the plane to Paris as the stable runs Ballynagour in the Prix la Barka (French Champion Hurdle Trial) at 2.08pm (UK time). It is a Grade 2 contest worth over £60,000 to the winner and as you would expect for that sort of prize money, it is extremely competitive. Silsol representing Paul Nicholls and Val de Ferbet and Gitane du Berlais (Willie Mullins) complete the overseas raiding party. Unfortunately I don’t think there is a British channel that will be showing the race, although Martin has the French racing channel, so no prizes for guessing where I will be!
- Friday, 15 May 2015 07:49
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
The stable enjoyed a good day at Perth yesterday when Street Entertainer ran out the ready winner of the feature handicap hurdle under Tom Scudamore. Our eight year old handled the soft ground very well indeed to prevail by 4 1/2 lengths from Gordon Elliott's favourite Seeyouallincoppers. He picked up over £9,000 in prize money so the long trip proved well worthwhile and provided Scottish owners Josie and Sean Tracey with a nice local winner. I wonder if Sean was celebrating last night? That really is a silly question! Anyway, I read a great statistic that somebody posted on Twitter yesterday - apparently when David and Tom have teamed up at Perth, they have had six consecutive winners, not bad going at all!
- Thursday, 14 May 2015 07:26
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
There is a busy day of racing ahead with no less than five meetings taking place - three on the flat from York, Salisbury and Newmarket and a couple of jumps fixtures from Perth and Fontwell. Tom Scudamore makes the long trip north to ride Street Entertainer (pictured above) for the stable at Perth. Our runner finished a good third last time out at Ayr and competes from the same mark of 122 so he looks to have solid claims once again. The imponderable is the ground which is officially described as soft - he has only ever won on good ground, so it will be interesting to see how he gets on.
- Wednesday, 13 May 2015 07:22
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
This afternoon there are five meetings taking place with flat action from York, Newcastle and Bath as well as jumps fixtures from Kempton and Perth. The prize money at a couple of meetings today is truly awful...step forward Newcastle who offer just £34,000 for their eight race card, while Kempton get away with just £30,000 for their jumps meeting. The stable has no runners today with the defection of Impulsive American on the flat at Bath. Stable jockey Tom Scudamore travels to Kempton for one ride, while championship leader Richard Johnson goes all the way to Perth for three rides for Gordon Elliott. Johnson is really setting his stall out early and is four ahead at the top of the table - the 11/8 about him winning his maiden championship is beginning to look good.
