- Friday, 04 July 2014 06:42
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
Dell'arca came from Deauville Sales 2013
Today we have five meetings on the flat at Sandown, Doncaster, Warwick, Haydock and Beverley. Away from racing, David had a good second day at Deauville sales yesterday and bought a few very nice horses including Alternatif for £180,000. He should have won at Auteuil last time out and has been bought for Professor Caroline Tisdall. The Professor certainly has some nices in our yard and it looks like it good be a very exciting season ahead. David has been busy in both Ireland and France in the past couple of weeks and as aquired some lovely young horses. David arrived back from France last night and our new horses are due to arrive back today so we are looking forard to meeting them.
- Thursday, 03 July 2014 06:44
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
Luke Harvey on a visit to Pond House
Massannie ran well and finished second at Worcester yesterday. There was drama at the second last hurdle when AP on board Flemenson who was clear, fell when going like the winner. It looked a bad fall for both the horse and AP who was also kicked by one of the horses coming behind but the champ being who he is got up and rode the next winner! I did think Aalim had a good chance before the race and you do need a bit of luck in running. He won at 13/2. Massannie was on her best behaviour and ran another solid race off top weight and a mark of 130. There has surely got to be more races in her and it looks like she will jump a fence as well. She has returned safe and well this morning which is the main thing. In the rest of the racing action yesterday a horse called Wakea won a maiden at Kempton by lengths. I would keep an eye on this colt as he looks okay and is sure to win again.
- Wednesday, 02 July 2014 06:52
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
Massannie runs today
David has one runner this afternoon, Massannie in the 3.50pm race at Worcester. She carries top weight of 11st 12lb and is 8/1 in the Racing Post. She was not beaten that far off this mark of 130 last time out on this track and although she made need to drop a few pounds in the handicap on her day, and on her best behaviour she is a pretty talented mare. Tom Scu rides. There are four other meetings as well as Worcester on today, three on the flat at Catterick, Kempton and Chepstow plus another jumps card at Perth. The prize money is poor at Chepstow. They have seven races competitng for total prize money of £25,000 where two of the races are worth under £2,000. This is the lowest I have seen so far but if owners keep letting thier trainers run them for this sort of money then the track will keep lowering their prize money on offer surely?!
- Tuesday, 01 July 2014 06:47
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
Dr AP!
Today we have four meetings, three on the flat at Hamilton, Brighton and Bath plus a jumps card at Stratford this evening. I see that Brighton and Bath get away with just £27,000 in prize money on offer for their seven races which I think is a pretty poor effort. David does not have any runners today at Stratford. I see that AP got an Honorary Doctor of Science at the University of Ulster. He mad e a great acceptance speech - someone must have written it for him! He's already got an OBE and he was Sports Personality of the year in 2010 and also in 2013 he was RTE Sports Person of the Year. All of these accolades were well deserved and he is a great credit to racing. Mind you, beating MCP's total number of winners seems to be what he really wants to do!
- Monday, 30 June 2014 06:48
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
I had a day at the races yesterday and went to Uttoxeter. No Secrets lead for quite a way but in the end weakened to finish eigth in the feature handicap chase. I thought Azza was going to win coming to the last but in the end she was just run out of it at the finish. She still ran well though and was only beaten just under a length. She will probably go up a couple of pounds for this good run but she should be able to win off a similar mark. Famousandfearless also looked like the winner coming to the last but flattened the hurdle and lost all chance of winning and finished third. This looks about his level. I have never seen so many bookmakers at the track, mind you the last time I went there was when Bonanza Boy won the Midlands Grand National and owner Angie was a bunny girl or at least she looked like she could have been! It was good to see our owner Professor Tisdall racing as well, it is not very often I get to talk to a professor! I bet you don't either though, just have a think, how many professor's do you know?!
- Sunday, 29 June 2014 09:03
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
Guess Again - winner of the Perth Gold Cup last time
There is a good jumps card at Uttoxeter this afternoon and David has four runners at the track. The big race is the 3.50pm John Smiths Summer Cup, a listed handicap chase with 18 runners. David runs two in this race, recent Perth Gold Cup winner Guess Again and No Secrets. Tom Scu is on board No Secrets who was a good second at Newbury on his latest start while Conor O'Farrell partners Guess Again who goes for his third win in a row. David also runs Azza in the 4.25pm race, a competitive 2 mile handicap hurdle and Famousandfearless runs in the final race on the card, a handicap hurdle over 2m4f. There are also two flat meetings on today at Salisbury and Windsor.
- Saturday, 28 June 2014 06:43
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
Guess Again - runs at Uttoxeter on Sunday
Today we have six meetings all on the flat at Newcastle, Newmarket, Windsor, Chester, Doncaster and Lingfield. The Curragh has over £1.3 million in prize money on offer with the feature race being the Irish Derby. The Lingfield card today has just £30,000. The big race in England is the John Smith's Northumberland Plate, a 2mile handicap with 20 runners. Many years ago we had Baron Blakeney in the race. We drove all the way to Newcastle on the Friday and stayed the night and prayed for rain - it rained so much the meeting was abandoned! There is jumping action tomorrow at Uttoxeter and David has four runners, including Guess Again and No Secrets in the feature handicap chase as wll as Azza and Famousandfearless. Check back here tomorrow for more news about Sunday's action.
