- Sunday, 19 October 2014 05:21
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
On the Gallops
It is like after the Lord Mayor Show. Today we have just two meetings at Bath and Kempton where the ground is good to soft at both courses. I can remember when we used to run on hard ground at Bath but you don't hear of that these days. David has just the one runner at Kempton this afternoon, Stars Over the Sea in the opening race on the card the juvenile hurdle. He is a decent flat performer and I watched him school earlier in the week and he jumped well. It is an eight runner race and only one horse has any jumping experience but there are some promising flat recruits so it showed be an interesting race. Tom Scu rides.
- Saturday, 18 October 2014 06:40
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
Standing Ovation
Today we have five meetings, three on the flat at Ascot, Catterick and Wolverhampton plus two jumps cards at Cheltenham and Kelso. Ascot has over £4 million in prize money for Champions Day while Wolverhampton has just £39,000! There is some cracking racing to look forward to at all the meetings. It has not stopped raining down here in the west country and neither it seems has it at Ascot where the ground is heavy. David has four runners at Cheltenham and Standing Ovation gets things underway in the 3.45pm handicap chase. He won the Badger Ales chase at Wincanton last season and although he has not won since then he ran well to finish 6th at the Festival and a similar run would see him have a great chance this afternoon. David also have Bygones Sovereign, Ainsi Fideles and Moon Racer. Our four year old Ainsi Fideles has won all five of his starts over fences. He seems to go on any ground and although this is a tough novice chase he should hopefully run well.
- Friday, 17 October 2014 08:20
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
Apologies for our absence yesterday. Unfortunately from time to time websites do need essential maintenance and yesterday was one of those days. The good news is that we are back just in time for the start of the National Hunt season at the headquarters of jump racing, Cheltenham. There are four supporting cards on the level at Newmarket, Haydock, Redcar and Wolverhampton. I say Newmarket is a supporting card, but it does feature three Group One races, a Group Two and two Group Three's! The stable has two runners in the 5.35pm race at Cheltenham this afternoon; Purple 'N Gold and Street Entertainer. After more heavy rain the ground could well find a few of these out - hopefully that will not be the case for Purple 'N Gold who has been in fine form all season on top of the ground. So long as he handles the going he should be thereabouts once again.
- Wednesday, 15 October 2014 06:51
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
There are four meetings taking place this afternoon with three fixtures on the flat from Lingfield, Nottingham and Kempton and a National Hunt card from Wetherby. Much as you would expect however, the most prize money today is on offer at Punchestown over in Ireland! The stable has no runners today with the next action from the stable likely coming tomorrow at Uttoxeter and Wincanton. David will be parading a couple of the stable stars, Cheltenham Festival winner Ballynagour (pictured above) and Greatwood Hurdle winner Dell' Arca before racing at Wincanton and with other big names also in the line-up it should be an interesting start to the season there tomorrow.
- Tuesday, 14 October 2014 06:54
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
Today we have four meetings taking place with three on the flat at Leicester, Newcastle and Wolverhampton as well as a jumps fixture from Huntingdon. If you were thinking of going jumping, the good news is that champion jockey A P McCoy is back in the saddle following a horrible looking fall last week at Worcester. He has four rides this afternoon as he pursues the elusive 300 winners in a season - looking through his rides, his best chance of a winner today would appear to be Top Billing for Nicky Richards in the 4.20pm race.
- Monday, 13 October 2014 06:43
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
It's been a gloomy start to the day, but I hope that a few readers will have joined me in backing Big Easy for the Cesarewitch at Newmarket on Saturday. I did suggest that he was worth an interest at odds of around 12/1 so not only did we back the winner of the big race, we nicked a couple of points off the bookies too...not a bad day's work at all! This afternoon there are three cards taking place with two flat cards from Windsor and Salisbury and some jumping action coming from Sedgefield. Although the stable has no runners, stable jockey Tom Scudamore is making the long journey all the way up to Sedgefield for just one ride aboard Monita Bonita for Tim Easterby in the 3.45pm race. You know what they say about jockeys travelling to a meeting for one ride...I'm not sure who said it, but perhaps it could be worth looking out for him this afternoon?
- Sunday, 12 October 2014 00:00
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
Today there are just two meetings taking place on these shores with one flat fixture from Goodwood and a jumps card from Ffos Las - the stable does not have any runners. Meanwhile over in Ireland there is an excellent flat card at the Curragh featuring the Irish Cesarewitch with four British trainers trying to plunder the prize. I would be very surprised if one of the home team did not have something lined up for this valuable handicap. Talking of globe trotters I see that Darryll Holland is riding in Shanghai today - it is on live television but being seven hours ahead I wonder how many people will actually be watching?
