- Wednesday, 13 August 2014 06:42
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
Kieron Edgar returns to action
Jump race action returns today at Newton Abbot and David has two runners at our local track. Intermath runs in the first race of the day, a juvenile hurdle. He has finished third in all of his three races over hurdles and last time finished a place behin Vosne Romanee at Market Rasen who also lines up in this race. I expect him to run a big race however and he could well turn the form around with this one. Bathwick Man runs in the final race of the day, a conditional jockeys handicapp hurdle and it is great to see Kieron Edgar back in action. This is his first ride since breaking his leg back in March and he could not wish for a better horse to ride than Bathwick Man! There are also four other meetings on today, all on the flat at Salisbury, Beverley, Kempton and Yarmouth.
- Tuesday, 12 August 2014 06:36
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
Tom Scu - Good start to the season
Today we have four flat cards at Ffos Las, Carlisle, Nottingham and Lingfield. The all-weather card has just £30,000 in prize money on offer, mind you Ffos Las and Carlisle only have £32,000 up for grabs. All three turf meetings have their going down as good to soft. David has one runner, Bathwick Street who runs in the 5.15pm at Ffos Las with Willie Twiston-Davies in the saddle. He is having his first run since May 2013 and the first for Pond House but he did win his last two starts for David Evans so it will be interesting to see how he gets on.
- Monday, 11 August 2014 06:53
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
Garden Party
Today we have flat cards at Ayr, Thirsk, Windsor and Wolverhampton. We have had a lot of rain around the country so the going could change so watch out for that if you are having a bet. We had 160 owners and friends at the yard on Saturday for a garden party. Quite a few arrived late due to the bad traffic on the M5 and they had horrendous journey's. Stuart Mercer was about 5 hours getting here from Manchester. He was however looking very smart having lost a lot of weight - I thought he looked quite like a small deck chair actually in his stripey shirt! Only joking Stuart! He tells me he has got back his Man Utd seats. He likes the new manager and signings. We also had three well known authors in attendance, Jilly Cooper, Hilary Bonner and yours truly! It was a good day with good food and the weather stayed fine. During the afternoon, Terry Neill who was here had a winner at Clairefontaine which we watched to the television. Another winner on the afternoon was for another of our owners in attendance, Peter Deal who had a nice win at Newmarket. At one time there were so many dogs running around but it was a lovely afternoon well organised by MCP and Carol.
- Sunday, 10 August 2014 00:00
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
Day seven of our summer sabbatical and there are just two meetings taking place this afternoon on the flat at Windsor and Leicester. Having said that, there is an excellent fixture over in Ireland at the Curragh with a Group 1 and Group 3 race on the card. The Phoenix Stakes takes place over six furlongs and is worth £200,000 in prize money so it is a little surprising that only Richard Hughes and Jamie Spencer have made the trip across. At least we can look forward to some jump racing next week - we have Newton Abbot on Wednesday and David has six horses entered up!
- Saturday, 09 August 2014 06:44
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
It's day six of our summer sabbatical and thankfully it is now nearing it's end. Even so, there is plenty to keep us entertained this afternoon with six meetings on the level from Ascot, Ayr, Haydock, Lingfield, Newmarket and Redcar. The big meeting of the day is at Ascot as they host the Shergar Cup meeting - it is always interesting to see how all the international jockeys fare against each other in a competition like this, let's hope that it draws a big crowd to the Berkshire course. Meanwhile, former champion jockey and current title leader Ryan Moore travels to Haydock for a strong book of six rides and I would imagine there is a winner or two among them. Indeed, William Buick, Kieren Fallon and Joe Fanning all have mounts at the track.
- Friday, 08 August 2014 06:34
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
Day five of our summer sabbatical and there are five meetings on the level to keep us entertained. They are from Musselburgh, Brighton, Lingfield, Newmarket and Haydock - once again there is an excellent piece of race planning with Lingfield and Brighton within relatively close proximity of each other. Am I the only one to see these glaringly obvious errors? Surely we should be looking to cast our net far and wide to attract the biggest audience to our sport...or am I missing something?
- Thursday, 07 August 2014 06:40
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
Day four of our summer sabbatical and this afternoon we have six meetings to look forward to from Brighton, Haydock, Yarmouth, Sandown, Newcastle and Southwell. Today's wooden spoon goes to Southwell who have just £28,000 in prize money for their seven race card. To further highlight the difference between the two countries, over in Ireland Leopardstown are putting up £134,000 in prize money while even their jumps card at Sligo is worth £75,000. If you finish fourth at Southwell this afternoon the owners can expect to pick up the princely sum £144...I don't think that will cover too many people's expenses!
