- Friday, 17 October 2014 08:20
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
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 Morgan
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 Morgan
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 Morgan
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 Morgan
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?
- Saturday, 11 October 2014 07:04
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
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 Morgan
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.
