- Thursday, 16 June 2016 07:20
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
There are five meetings taking place this afternoon with flat action coming from Chelmsford City, Ripon and Lingfield while there is a jumps card from Ffos Las. The main event of course is day three of the Royal Ascot meeting and David has a runner in the big one itself. Griraz (picture above) looks to face a near impossible task in the Ascot Gold Cup at 4.20pm - three times a Listed winner, he goes nicely at home and will be ridden by Donnacha O'Brien. I am sure he will be winning in his turn, although it may not be today - his owner likes a crack at these big races, so why not?
- Wednesday, 15 June 2016 07:12
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
There are five meetings to look forward to this afternoon with action from the second day of the Royal meeting at Ascot supported by flat cards from Hamilton, Ripon and Chelmsford City, while over the sticks there is a fixture at Uttoxeter. David has one runner this afternoon as Brook (pictured above) takes in the 3m2f handicap chase at 5.20pm. He is a 6/1 chance according to the Racing Post and he was still going alright at Worcester last time when he fell at the twelfth fence. His three wins have all come with cut in the ground so today's going ought to suit him and he should go well under stable jockey Tom Scudamore.
- Tuesday, 14 June 2016 07:11
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
There are five meetings taking place this afternoon with flat action from Royal Ascot, Beverley, Brighton and Thirsk (although the last named have to pass an inspection this morning), meanwhile there is also a jumps fixture from Stratford. David has one runner at Stratford; Honeymoon Cocktail (pictured above) - our five year old has won twice in France as well as on the all-weather in this country. He has schooled okay at home and is partnered this afternoon by Tom Scudamore.
- Monday, 13 June 2016 07:23
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
Today we have four meetings taking place, all on the flat with action from Carlisle, Thirsk, Windsor and Nottingham and unsurprisingly David has no runners today. The stable did have one runner over the weekend when Impulsive American travelled back up to Scotland to try to add to his impressive Scottish record on the flat at Musselburgh. In the end he finished fourth, although the form book says "exaggerated waiting tactics might have cost him this time as he was last leaving the back straight, he can be given another chance". I have never seen a horse so far back and he did well to finish fourth, that is all I am going to say...
- Sunday, 12 June 2016 00:00
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
There are just two meetings taking place this afternoon with flat cards from Salisbury and Doncaster - I know it is the flat season, but the schedule still seems very unbalanced to me. There were seven flat fixtures yesterday while both England and Wales started their Euro 2016 football campaigns. Surely it would have been better to have seven meetings today and given sports fans the opportunity to watch those matches without missing the chance to go racing? I know you can't please all the people all of the time and the race planning committee have a thankless task, but surely a bit of common sense could prevail?
- Saturday, 11 June 2016 07:28
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
There was another nice winner for the stable yesterday afternoon as Gabrial The Great (pictured above) made a winning chase debut at Newton Abbot. He was given a fine front-running ride from Tom Scudamore and it reminded me of his father back in the early days. It was his first start over the larger obstacles and he was a bit chancy at one or two of them but he can only improve for the experience. David will certainly be gloating to me when I see him as he told me he would win!
- Friday, 10 June 2016 07:01
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
Today there are six meetings, flat cards at York, Sandown, Goodwood and Chepstow plus two jumps cards at Newton Abbot and Aintree. David runs Gabrial the Great in the 3.55pm at Newton Abbot. This is his first run over fences in this 2 mile novice chase. He has won three times on good ground but he can be quite keen so let's just hope the larger obstacles help Tom Scu get him settled. If he does he would have to have a chance, despite it looking a fairly competitive little contest.
