- Friday, 18 July 2014 06:46
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
It's a blank day on the jumping front, but there are six meetings taking place on the level with fixtures from Newbury, Nottingham, Haydock, Hamilton, Newmarket and Pontefract. Much as you would expect, the best prize money on offer today is over in Ireland at their Kilbeggan card where they have £105,000 up for grabs. I know it is very much out of season now, but you would think that race planning would ensure that at least one of those meetings today is a National Hunt fixture...what on earth are they thinking about?
- Thursday, 17 July 2014 06:53
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
There was a nice winner for the yard last night in the concluding race at Worcester as Weather Babe ensured that A P McCoy did not move in front of Martin in the career winners race. Weather Babe won nicely by seven lengths for stable sponsors Wayne & Sarah Clifford and it wouldn't be the greatest of surprises to see her follow-up under a penalty. She was 6lbs 'well-in' last night so was entitled to win - hopefully the handicapper will not crucify her for this effort. Meanwhile, over on the flat Purple 'N Gold was a bit disappointing in the one mile hanidcap at Sandown last night - perhaps the trip was a little on the sharp side for him?
- Wednesday, 16 July 2014 06:39
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
There are five meetings taking place this afternoon; three on the flat at Catterick, Lingfield and Sandown as well as a couple of jumps cards from Worcester and Uttoxeter. The stable has a runner under both codes today - Purple 'N Gold on the level at Sandown and Weather Babe over hurdles in the 9.00pm at Worcester. Weather Babe (pictured above) ran a cracker to finish second at Market Rasen recently and runs from the same mark of 125 which is 6lbs ahead of her official handicap mark - she looks to be the one to beat under Tom Scudamore. Meanwhile, Purple 'N Gold would have a chance of sorts in the 7.40pm at Sandown - he rarely runs a bad race but this is a trappy little race. He will enjoy the ground and has the assistance of Ryan Moore in the saddle.
- Tuesday, 15 July 2014 07:09
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
It was a good day for the yard yesterday afternoon as Franklin Roosevelt struck in the staying handicap hurdle under a positive front-running ride from Tom Scudamore, who in turn went on to complete a treble on the day. David did well to find a good opportunity for Franklin Roosevelt here as he was running from a hurdle mark of 109 which was the same as his last winning mark over the larger obstacles. Faced with a similar opportunity it would not be difficult to see him follow-up. Of our other runners, it may well be that the ground was on the fast side for Vif Argent's liking, while Bathwick Man was a little disappointing on his seasonal reappearance. It wasn't such a good day for champion jockey A P McCoy who is still one short of Martin's total of 4191 - Martin must have put the voodoo on him yesterday when he went to the races to see him!
- Monday, 14 July 2014 06:36
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
This afternoon there are four meetings taking place with three fixtures on the flat from Ayr, Windsor and Lingfield as well as a jumps card from our local track Newton Abbot. Not for the first time Newton Abbot have done well to secure more prize money than their flat counterparts so well done to them. The stable has three runners at the Devon track; Vif Argent, Franklin Roosevelt (pictured above) and Bathwick Man. If Vif Argent can handle this quicker surface he could well run a big race at likely odds of around 6/1. He ran well in France last time and would have a squeak on that form.
- Sunday, 13 July 2014 07:16
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
Intermath runs at Stratford
David has two runners today, Intermath in the 4.25pm juvenile hurdle at Stratford with Conor O'Farrell on board and Famousandfearless in the 3.10pm handicap hurdle at Southwell with Tom Scu in the saddle. Intermath has just had just the one start over hurdles at Uttoxeter last month and he ran okay to finish third. Hopefully is should run well again. Famousandfearless also ran okay the last time finishing third at Uttoxeter. This was his best run since joining Pond House so hopefully a repeat of that could see him go close this afternoon. AP has five rides at Southwell and two of them are favourites. He is still trying to get past MCP's total number of winners, he is edging closer, could today be the day?! There are three race meetings today and all of them are over the sticks at Perth, Stratford and Southwell. If you are a flat jockey bad luck or bad planning!
- Saturday, 12 July 2014 06:44
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
Today we have six metings all on the flat at Newmarket, Ascot, York, Chester, Salisbury and Hamilton. I know I keep mentioning prize money but Hamilton get away with £30,000 for their seven race card today. There is a good card at Newmarket. The ground looked soft yesterday and found out quite a few fancied horses. Sky Lantern was not given a hard race by Richard Hughes once he realised she was not handling the soft ground. Earlier in the day, Ryan Moore rode French jockey Maxine Guyon to sleep in the Group 2 Duchess of Cambridge stakes. Talking of Ryan Moore, he has hit out at fixture congestion. We have all these good flat cards today and yet tomorrow there are no flat meetings but we have three jumps cards at Stratford, Southwell and Perth. I keep saying this as well but I don't thing the fixtures organisers have got a clue about the difference between flat and jumps racing! They also need a map of the UK! It all makes me think that if you are a jockey you should be able to ride onthe flat or over jumps! Richard Hughes flys from Newmarket to Salisbury to ride Mister Loso in the 6.55pm race so he must be expecting this one to win!
