- Monday, 06 April 2015 07:42
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
As you would expect of a Bank Holiday Monday there is a busy afternoon of racing ahead with no less than seven meetings taking place. There are five jumps fixtures from Plumpton, Fakenham, Market Rasen, Chepstow and Huntingdon as well as flat cards from Wolverhampton and Redcar. At the moment my neighbouring town Torbay is packed with holiday makers and I cannot for the life of me understand why there is a meeting further south west than Chepstow - great race planning once again! The stable has three runners this afternoon with Obistar and Gevrey Chambertin (pictured above) at Chepstow partnered by Tom Scudamore, while conditional jockey Michael Heard is aboard Skylander at Plumpton.
- Sunday, 05 April 2015 09:29
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
Lady of Longstone runs at Plumpton
David has one runner today, Lady of Longstone in the last race of the day at Plumpton. Kieron Edgar rides our mare in the conditional jockeys handicap hurdle. She has had a winter break and is having her first run for 117 days. She should like the quick conditions and hopefully our bumper winner can run well. As well as Plumpton we also have a jumps card at Sedgefield and a flat card at Musselburgh. I see AP has gone to ride at Fairyhouse where he has three rides. I am sure he will win on at least one of them and I wonder how many extra people will go racing just because he is there?
- Saturday, 04 April 2015 07:08
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
Happy Easter
Today we have four meetings, three jumps cards at Carlisle, Haydock and Newton Abbot plus a flat card at Kempton. It is a quiet day for the yard with no runners but all of our jockeys seem to be in action. Tom Scu and Kieron Edgar are both a Newton Abbot, Conor O'Farrell is at Carlisle and Michael Heard is at Haydock. Channel 4 missed the first half of a race at Lingfield yesterday as they were on a commericial break! Quite funny as Nick Luck had promised "you won't miss anything!". You only saw the last three furlongs! In yesterday's action at Lingfield the unlucky horse was Sovereign Debt. He got no luck in running and was beaten a neck. I am not sure the jockey was at his best...can you tell I backed him! I also did my money on Anglophile who was beaten a head. It was one of those days! There was a record crowd at Lingfield so you can tell there is a demand for racing on Good Friday.
- Friday, 03 April 2015 07:10
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
On the Gallops
David's horses continue in good form and Classical Art dead heated to win the 2.50pm race at Taunton yesterday and take the winners total to 113 for the season. Both jockey's involved thought they had won but obviously the photo finish said otherwise! I think if he jumped the last cleanly we would have won. Michael Heard's good run continues and that was his second win in two days and his 10th of the season. For the first time we have racing on Good Friday, with two flat cards at Lingfield and Musselburgh. Low Key ran well and and finished third, only two lengths behind the winner, Post Melon. Lets just hope the handicapper does not take the run too seriously, he could put Low Key on a silly mark. Yard sponsor and owner Wayne Clifford was jumping around the parade ring on the telly at Taunton yesterday after his horse Sporting Boy won. Wife Sarah had to present the prize to him as Bathwick Tyres sponsored the race. Well done to them!!
- Thursday, 02 April 2015 07:07
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
AP - riding at Taunton today
Today we have three meetings, two jumps cards at Ludlow and Taunton plus a flat card at Wolverhampton. David has two runners at Taunton, Low Key and Classical Art. Low Key is a 20/1 chance in the Racing Post and Kieron Edgar is on board. He has had two runs over hurdles which have been a bit disappointing but he is a winner on the flat. Classical Art was pulled up last time out at Newbury but this is a big drop in class. Michael Heard takes a handy seven pounds off and he could run well. AP is riding at Taunton this afternoon so it is well worth going along to our local track just to see him!
- Wednesday, 01 April 2015 07:11
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
Susie Sheep - 2nd at Huntingdon
Today we have four meetings, two jumps cards at Wincanton and Towcester plus flat cards at Chelmsford and Kempton. David had one intended runner, Pilgrims Bay in the Bumper at Towcester but unfortunately he is not running so there are no runners from the yard today. Yesterday the yards horses ran well and all were placed but we just hit the crossbar in terms of a winner! For n Against was a good second, only beaten 3/4 of a length at Exeter and he was five lengths ahead of the third horse. This was another improved effort and he has surely got to be winning soon. Sinndar's man finished third and while he ran okay he was slightly disappointing. Susie Sheep is another who ran better yesterday to finish second at Huntingdon and ought to be winning races before too long. Tom Scu had another winner yesterday and he is creeping closer to the 150 winner mark for the season.
- Tuesday, 31 March 2015 07:15
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
Rathealy - Winner at Warwick
It was great for David to get two winners yesterday, Rathealy at Warwick and Herbert Park at Kempton. Rathealy is only a four year old and despite not being fluent at the last he battled on very well under a great ride from Tom Scu to win. He is entered in the Sussex Champion hurdle at Plumpton on Sunday and he is a previous course winner but we shall just see how he is as the week progresses. Herbert Park loved the step up in trip to 3 miles and won under a nice ride from Kieron Edgar at Kempton. The Darling Boy finished fourth at Chepstow and Saint John Henry fell at Warwick but I am pleased to report he seems none the worse for it and is fine this morning. It is just good to see that the stable appears in good form with the big Aintree meeting coming up.
