- Saturday, 11 October 2014 07:04
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
There are six meetings taking place this afternoon with four on the flat from York, Newmarket, Musselburgh and Wolverhampton as well as quality jumps action coming from Chepstow and Hexham. Somehow Wolverhampton get away with just £35,000 in prize money spread across eight races on a Saturday...at least Chepstow have some decent money with over £100,00 up for grabs at Chepstow.
- Friday, 10 October 2014 06:46
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
It was a case of fourth-itis yesterday as Johnny McGeeney, Party Girls and Mount Haven all finished in that position. I thought that Mount Haven may have finished a little closer in the bumper at Worcester, but it had the look of a warm race and the softer surface may have found him out under his winners' penalty Today there are four meetings taking place with two cards on the level from York and Wolverhampton as well as National Hunt fixtures from Newton Abbot and Carlisle - Tom Scu makes the long trip up to Carlisle to ride a couple for Gordon Elliott, both of which look to hold decent chances.
- Thursday, 09 October 2014 06:45
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
There are four meetings taking place this afternoon with two flat cards from Ayr and Wolverhampton supported by a couple of jump meetings from Exeter and Worcester. It is good to have the first meeting of the new season at Exeter today and the stable has three runners at the Haldon track; Johnny McGeeney, Party Girls and Bathwick Man, while Tom Scu goes to Worcester to ride Mount Haven and Obistar for the yard. Mount Haven (pictured above) bolted up in a Fontwell bumper in June on his debut for the yard and while this is a stronger race and he has a penalty to carry a big run is expected nonetheless.
- Wednesday, 08 October 2014 06:56
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
It is looking like a more balanced fixture list this afternoon with two meetings taking place on the level at Nottingham and Kempton, while there are two jumping cards taking place at Ludlow and Towcester - the stable has two runners at Ludlow; Massannie and Azza. Massannie has undoubted ability but hasn't been putting it to best use of late, while Azza (pictured above) returns to the larger obstacles in the novices' limited handicap chase over 2m4f. She is already a winner of this trip at Uttoxeter this season and is in receipt of weight from her rivals this afternoon. Tom Scudamore is in the saddle aboard both of our runners this afternoon.
- Tuesday, 07 October 2014 06:43
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
There are four flat cards taking place this afternoon at Brighton, Catterick, Kempton and Leicester so I'm afraid if you are a fan of the jumps you are out of luck. Champion jockey Richard Hughes has five rides at Kempton while his title rival Ryan Moore has seven at Kempton as well as a further ride at Leicester. It looks like it is going to be a cracking finish to the flat season with Moore currently leading by just one winner - I thought that Ryan had given up on the championship...it would seem not.
- Monday, 06 October 2014 06:56
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
Famousandfearless (pictured above) put up an improved performance to win the handicap chase at Uttoxeter yesterday afternoon over three miles. He jumped soundly and the step-up in trip certainly seemed to suit him well - I see no reason why he cannot continue to improve and I wouldn't be at all surprised to see him complete the hat-trick over the coming weeks. Vazaro Delafayette finished fourth on his seasonal reappearance and he is entitled to come on for the outing, while the same comment could apply to Johnny McGeeney at Huntingdon.
- Sunday, 05 October 2014 07:16
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
Famousandfearless
Winner at Plumpton last time out
There are three meetings today, all of them over the sticks at Huntingdon, Kelso and Uttoxeter. I bet it must be frustrating for the jockeys at the moment. You can only ride at one meeting and yet some days in the week they have no jumps cards at all! I know I keep going on about it but, race planning! David has three runners. Johnny McGeeney runs in the 2m4f handicap hurdle at Huntingdon with Conor O'Farrel on board. He is making his Pond House debut so it will be interesting to see how he gets on. We have two runners at Uttoxeter, Vazaro Delafayette and Famousandfearless and Tom Scu is on board both of these. Famousandfearless won last time out at Plumpton and has gone up five pounds for that win. This looks quite a competitive race for some decent prize money on offer so he will have to improve again to have a chance of winning this. This former point to point winner will appreciate the step up in distance and fingers crossed he can go well.
