- Thursday, 01 January 2015 08:01
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
Knight of Noir runs at Cheltenham
I would like to start by wishing everyone a happy and healthy 2015, I hope you all enjoyed New Year's Eve! Today we have six meetings, five jumps cards at Cheltenham, Musselburgh, Catterick, Exeter and Fakenham plus a flat card at Southwell. I am pleased to report all meetings go ahead after no problems. The temperatures were in fact 12 degrees down here at 6am this morning - quite tropical! David has three runner at Cheltenham, Our Father, Knight of Noir and Barneby and six at Exeter Our Cheif, Sivron, Skylander, Kalifourchon, Rinnca Fada and Bella. Knight of Noir was second at Cheltenham on his last start and has gone up five pounds for that run. He should be a bit sharper for that run and goes on any ground. He steps up in trip today which looks like it should suit and we are hopeful of a big run. Three of our runners today are having their first ever run. They run in the bumpers at Cheltenham and Exeter and it will be interesting to see how they get on.
- Wednesday, 31 December 2014 08:24
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
Sadly both the jumps cards from Warwick and Uttoxeter have been lost to the elements which is a great shame as the stable was due to have runners at both meetings. It is not often that I say this, but thank goodness for the all-weather where they hold a flat card at Lingfield this afternoon! Even so, I can't forgive them a paltry £27,000 in prize money across their seven race fixture.
- Tuesday, 30 December 2014 08:31
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
There are two meetings taking place this afternoon after Haydock was lost to the frost. Following an inspection Taunton goes ahead without a problem and is supported by an all-weather flat card from Lingfield. The stable has one runner at Taunton; Northern Bay (pictured above)who participates in the conditional jockeys handicap hurdle where he will be partnered by Kieron Edgar. Northern Bay finished runner-up on good ground at Newton Abbot in September - I think the softer ground will help this ex-French gelding and he has shown enough to suggest that he is capable of winning a race of this nature.
- Monday, 29 December 2014 08:16
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
Home Run with his Winning Jockeys
With the temperature plummeting we have unfortunately lost some of our jumping fixtures. Leicester was lost to the elments yesterday as was today's card at Doncaster. Kelso have been forced to abandon there meeting today this morning as has the all-weather fixture at Southwell!! All-weather racing is good as longs as the weather doesn't get too bad!! So we are just left with Newbury and David has two runners. Good Value is making a quick reappearance after running at Kempton on Saturday. He was a little disappointing but we hope he can learn from the experience. He is a 20/1 chance in the Racing Post which just shows how competitive the race is but he is an 82 rated flat performer so hopefully he will be able to transfer this ability over obstacles. Home Run runs in the 3.15pm handicap hurdle and he is a 13/2 chance. He is five pounds higher than his last winning mark but did run well at the track at the Hennessy meeting. He was a bit of a naughty boy at the start at Sandown last time so hopefully he will behave and run okay. We do have a jockey change on both of our runners. Due to the abandonment of Doncaster, Tom Scu now switches to ride both horses.
- Saturday, 27 December 2014 11:58
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
After a couple of busy days over the festive period, things return to some form of normality today as there are just two National Hunt cards from Leicester and Catterick and an all-weather flat meeting from Lingfield. Let's hope that the snow that has hit the Midlands has cleared in time for racing to go ahead. The stable runs Bladoun (pictured above) at Leicester this afternoon - our six year old won last time out and is stable jockey Tom Scudamore's only ride of the day. You know what they say about jockeys travelling to race meetings for just one ride...I don't know who says it, but let's hope they are right!
- Saturday, 27 December 2014 09:00
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
It was a good Boxing Day for the yard with two winners from our eight runners, maintaining David's excellent 25% strike rate on the season. Batavir and Alternatif were the winners - Batavir (pictured above) stayed on gamely to beat Bears Affair by 2 1/2 lengths, then Alternatif won the last at Kempton in the dark by a neck - hopefully the handicapper will not be too unkind. Even allowing for the winners though, the performance of the day from any Pond House charge had to be Dynaste's brave second in the King George VI Chase. He put in a great round of jumping and stayed on in really pleasing fashion to be beaten only by old rival Silviniaco Conti - he picked up a handy £42,000 in prize money so owner John White must be delighted.
- Friday, 26 December 2014 08:13
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
Hoping the Stockings filled with
Christmas & New Year's winners!!
Well I hope everyone had an enjoyable Christmas today but today is my favourite day with a Christmas cracker of sport. Today we have eights jumps cards at Kempton, Wetherby, Wincanton, Market Rasen, Fontwell, Sedgefield, Huntingdon and Towcester. There is also a flat card at Wolverhampton plus some great action in Ireland as well. David has runners at four meetings today. Jockey Conor O'Farrell takes the long trip to Wetherby to ride Broadway Buffalo and Vif Argent. They will be seeing if they can do a repeat performance of their win in the Tommy Whittle chase at Haydock just last Saturday. He carries a six pound penalty and as long as the race doesn't come to soon he looks to have a great chance of following up. We have two runners in the 1.40pm Pertemps race at Wincanton, Softsong and Batavir. Young Michael Heard takes a handy seven pounds off of Softsong but Batavir looks to have a great chance running with a penalty after his nice win at Ascot last week. As you may have heard, Tom Scu is going to ride Batavir before making the 36 minute helicopter journey to Kempton to ride Dynaste in the King George and Alternatif in the last race. We also have two runners at Towcester, Obistar and For 'n' Against with Kieron Edgar partnering both of these.
