- Tuesday, 19 July 2016 07:19
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
It is back to the flat this afternoon with just four meetings on the level with the action coming from Ffos Las, Musselburgh, Chelmsford City and Nottingham. Unsurprisingly David does not have any runners today. It looked as if the 'one ride' theory was going to pay dividends again yesterday as Tom Scudamore was going well aboard Next Sensation when coming to grief three out. I may be biased but he looked the likeliest winner to me.
- Monday, 18 July 2016 07:10
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
There are four meetings taking place this afternoon with action coming from Ayr, Windsor and Beverley on the level, while there is a National Hunt card from Cartmel. David does not have any runners today but stable jockey Tom Scudamore is heading north for one ride for his brother at Cartmel aboard 2015 Cheltenham Festival winner Next Sensation. It will be interesting to test the 'one ride' theory today.
- Sunday, 17 July 2016 08:35
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
Gabrial the Great
returns to Newton Abbot today
There are three meetings today, a flat card at Redcar plus two jumps cards at Stratford and Newton Abbot. David has two runners at Newton Abbot, Gabrial the Great and Houston Dynimo. Gabrial the Great runs in the 3.10 novice chase over 2 miles and Tom Scu rides. He was a winner at the track last time out on his chasing debut and it looks like we have the Paul Nicholls trained Keltus to beat. He does have to give us four pounds so hopefully that will be the deciding factor. Houston Dynimo runs in the 4.20 handicap chase over 3m2f. Our 11 year old keeps running well but has not got his head in front for a while. David Noonan takes a handy three pounds off and he keeps coming down the weights so hopefully he will run well again.
- Saturday, 16 July 2016 06:56
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
Ballynagour head the weights
at Market Rasen
It is a busy day on the racing front with seven meetings around the country. There are flat cards at Newbury, Newmarket, Ripon, Haydock and Lingfield plus two jumps cards at Market Rasen and Cartmel. Lingfield have seven races on their card and have got away with prize money of just £33,000 for the day. Meanwhile, there is good prize money on offer at both of today's jump meetings. David has three runners at Market Rasen, Ballynagour, Kalifourchon and Castlemorris King and Tom Scu rides all three. Ballynagour has top weight of 11st 12lb in the competitive chase and is 8/1 in the early betting. He was put up five pounds for a good second at Uttoxeter last time and is back to a rating of 157. This was back to form and a repeat of this from our high class chaser should see him thereabouts.
- Friday, 15 July 2016 07:24
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
There are six meetings taking place this afternoon and once again they are all on the flat! At least there is a good jumping card from Market Rasen to look forward to tomorrow (where Ballynagour, pictured above, is an intended runner in the Summer Plate). Anyway, today's action comes from Newbury, Haydock, Nottingham, Hamilton, Newmarket and Pontefract. Golfer Lee Westwood might be participating in the Open at Royal Troon but I know what he will be doing at 7.40pm. Westwood and his agent Chubby Chandler own Hoof It who participates in the six furlong sprint handicap. Hoof It is a 10/1 chance so let's hope that he runs well for Westwood who finished his first round of the Open on par.
- Thursday, 14 July 2016 07:24
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
There are five meetings taking place this afternoon and once again all the action is on the level with fixtures from Hamilton, Leicester, Chepstow, Doncaster and Epsom so unsurprisingly there are no runners from Pond House today. What a good job they did advertising Downpatrick's fixture in Ireland yesterday - course organisers put on a family fun day with loads of activities for the young'uns and 1,200 children turned up with their families. You have to come up with new ways of putting numbers on the gate and encouraging the next generation to come racing so they should be applauded for the initiative...some of the courses over here would do well to take note.
- Wednesday, 13 July 2016 07:14
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
There are five meetings taking place this afternoon with flat action from Lingfield, Catterick, Yarmouth and Sandown while there is a jumps fixture from Uttoxeter. Although David does not have any runners this afternoon stable jockey Tom Scudamore and conditional jockey David Noonan have both picked up mounts at Uttoxeter. Our two runners yesterday; For 'N' Against and Dusk Till Dawn finished fifth and sixth in the staying handicap chase - the former did well to get back into things after a couple of uncharacteristic bad errors, although they could probably both do with coming down a few pounds in the weights. The trouble is that it takes so long for them to get back to a winning mark.
