- Thursday, 01 May 2014 07:04
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
There are five meetings on these shores again this afternoon with flat cards from Redcar and Lingfield as well as jumps action from Sedgefield, Towcester and Ffos Las. The stable is represented by Decoy and Vif Argent at Ffos Las - Vif Argent was a winner from this mark over fences and now reverts to hurdling in the hands of French amateur jockey Thomas Viel. Over in Ireland the Punchestown Festival continues and we have another couple of runners at the meeting;Tullyesker Hill (pictured above) and recent Market Rasen winner Western Diva. Western Diva showed improved form to overturn a long odds-on chance that day and could run a decent race under Tom Scudamore.
- Wednesday, 30 April 2014 07:24
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
Today we have five meetings in this country, four on the flat at Ascot, Pontefract, Brighton and Southwell as well as a Hunter Chase card at Cheltenham. There is also the small matter of day two of the Punchestown Festival. The stable has one runner this afternoon; Listed bumper winner Seven Nation Army (pictured above). He is a 20/1 chance according to the bookmakers, so that tells you about the quality of this Grade One field - Nina Carberry is in the saddle and she looks like a good jockey booking. Hopefully he will be able to follow-up the success of The Liquidator in this race twelve months ago.
- Tuesday, 29 April 2014 07:12
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
It's a busy day with five flat cards taking place at Nottingham, Yarmouth, Lingfield, Newcastle and Wolverhampton For us jumps fans it is the first day of the Punchestown Festival over in Ireland and we have two runners in The Liquidator (a Grade One bumper winner at the meeting last season) and Ballynagour. Both are relatively big prices, although Ballynagour (pictured above) has run two good races recently - a facile success in the Byrne Group Plate at the Cheltenham Festival followed by a close third when stepped up to Grade One company at Aintree. Although his profile can be rather in and out, his form looks rock solid and he fully deserves to take his chance in this Grade One line-up. Tom Scudamore is aboard both of our runners and both he and David fly out this morning for the Emerald Isle.
- Monday, 28 April 2014 07:00
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
The Liquidator runs at Punchestown
Today there are five flat meetings at Bath, Kempton, Windsor, Southwell and Wolverhampton. If you are a real glutten for punishment then you could go to Kempton and then pop down the road for the evening meeting at Windsor! I have just been looking through all the Punchestown entries for this week. I see that Mr Mullins has two runners in the 5.30pm race tomorrow - the 2 mile champion chase. David runs Ballynagour in this. Our eight year old has run two solid races at Cheltenham and Aintree recently and this looks a very imteresting race with 200,000 Euros up for grabs. If you get into trouble you could do worse than follow the Mullins horses in all the races at Punchestown in the coming days! David also has The Liquidator running in the 4.20pm champion novices hurdle on Tuesday. Again Willie Mullins has the favourite Faugheen who will take all the beating but The Liquidator did win the champion bumper at Punchestown last season so does not mind travelling across the Irish Sea! Tom Scu rides both of these. One thing is for certain there will be a lot of guiness drank this week!
- Sunday, 27 April 2014 07:18
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
Ballynagour heads to Punchestown
Today there are just two flat cards at Ayr and Kempton. The jumps season has finished and for once there is a few days break before we start again. Quite often everything has started again today but it is nice even just to have a few days off! I still think a two month break would suit everyone, including the horses but I don't see this happening anytime soon. All jockey's amd trainers are back to zero again and it is a clean slate for everyone. The big meeting coming up for jumpers now is Punchestown next week. It is like a real party out there and the Irish do know how to look after you! David is likely to have a few runners with The Liquidator, Ballynagour, Seven Nation Army and Tullyesker Hill already on there way over there. Un Temps Pour Tout and Western Diva could follow them later in the week. I know some of our staff are looking forward to going or at least hoping to go!
- Saturday, 26 April 2014 06:58
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
Dynaste before his bubble bath!
Top Wood put up a good performance to finish fourth carrying top weight at Chepstow last night. He lead and was only overtaken and beaten narrowly on the run in under Tom Scudamore. David does not have any runners today as unfortuantely No Secrets was balloted out of the Bet365 chase at Sandown. David is still going to the season finale and we are parading Dynaste as part of the day's proceedings. He has been enjoying going out to grass of late and rolling in the mud as you can see from the photo above! He had to have a bath yesterday in preparation for today!
- Friday, 25 April 2014 07:04
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
Top Wood on the Gallops
His Excellency ran a good race to finish fourth at Perth yesterday. He was not beaten that far and stayed on all the way to the line. He always seems to run well and consistently without winning! He even looks like he may want a bit further on this evidence so maybe worth a try over three miles. Our two Perth runners arrived home safely during the night and are all fine this morning. There is plenty of racing on today, five meetings. There are two flat cards at Sandown and Doncaster plus jumps cards at Perth, Newton Abbot and Chepstow. David runs Top Wood at Chepstow in what looks like quite an open and competitive handicap hurdle. He is quite consistent having won 5 of his 12 career starts, he has won at the course before and he would have a chance at 15/2 in the Racing Post.
