- Saturday, 11 April 2015 07:34
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
It is Grand National day today and British racing will become the sporting focus of the world at 4.15pm. As well as the big meeting from Aintree there is jump racing from Chepstow and flat action from Lingfield, Newcastle and Wolverhampton. The stable runs Soll, Un Temps Pour Tout and Baltimore Rock at Aintree and Perspicace and Bladoun at Chepstow. Soll (pictured above) is our sole runner in the Grand National and he is unbeaten in two starts since joining the stable this season - he has twice run creditably over these fences and has crept in at the bottom of the weights. He looks certain to stay the trip and although any more rain will aid his cause, a big run is expected under Tom Scudamore.
- Friday, 10 April 2015 07:37
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
It is day two of the Grand National meeting from Aintree today and there are supporting cards from Fontwell over the sticks as well as flat fixtures from Leicester and Wolverhampton. The stable is represented by Dell' Arca, Ainsi Fideles, Poole Master, Monetaire and Standing Ovation at Aintree as well as Vayland at Fontwell. It looks like another high class meeting at Aintree - the ground seemed quite quick yesterday and course officials have watered overnight which should help. Looking through the Aintree card, I notice that Monetaire (pictured above) is vying for favouritism at odds of around 10/1 for the Topham Chase over the National fences at 4.05pm. It is a thirty runner handicap chase in which we also run Poole Master and Standing Ovation and I think we have a big chance.
- Thursday, 09 April 2015 07:35
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
It's a big day today with the start of the Grand National meeting from Aintree. The supporting action comes from a jumps card at Taunton as well as a couple of flat fixtures at Chelmsford and Southwell. The stable has runners at Aintree and Taunton - at Aintree we are represented by Stars Over The Sea, Ballynagour, Unique de Cotte, Serienschock and Bygones Sovereign, while at Taunton we run Softsong, Willem, All Force Majeure and Multimedia. Unique de Cotte (pictured above) will be ridden by champion jockey A P McCoy for his boss J P McManus and I think he will run a big race with the trip and flat track looking ideal to me.
- Wednesday, 08 April 2015 07:14
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
It's another all flat day with racing taking place at Nottingham, Catterick, Lingfield and Kempton. Unsurprisingly the stable has no runners this afternoon but don't worry jumps racing returns tomorrow with fixtures from Taunton and Aintree. With tomorrow marking the beginning of the 2015 Grand National meeting, I would have thought it would have been better to have had Taunton on today and an extra flat meeting tomorrow, or am I missing something? Don't answer that!
- Tuesday, 07 April 2015 07:35
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
We have a couple of blank days as far as jump racing is concerned with the next National Hunt action coming on Thursday with the first day of Aintree's Grand National meeting. Consequently, the three meetings taking place this afternoon are all on the level at Pontefract, Chelmsford and Lingfield. Typically though, the most prize money on offer today comes from Ireland over the sticks at Fairyhouse.
- 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?
