- Saturday, 16 August 2014 06:55
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
It's a busy day on the racing front with no less than eight meetings taking place; six on the flat at Ripon, Chester, Doncaster, Lingfield, Newbury and Newmarket, while there are two fixtures over the sticks from Market Rasen and Perth. The stable has two runners at Market Rasen; Ainsi Fideles who is unbeaten in two starts since switching to fences and Bathwick Man who was narrowly beaten at Newton Abbot on Wednesday. David has been forced to run our nine year old again quickly as he will likely face a rise in the weights for his narrow defeat. He has not won for quite a while, so if he doesn't put his head in front today he will certainly struggle from a revised rating.
- Friday, 15 August 2014 06:44
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
MCP, Jeff & Emma Pearce on the Gallops
Barton Stacey bounced back to form yesterday at Fontwell and won with a fair bit in hand, David's 24th winner of the season. The owners were swinging in the trees, He is owned by the Pipe Monkees! All of his wins have come on good to firm or good ground and hopefully he can win again over hurdles or fences. That is his second win of the summer, last time it was over fences and it was under a good ride by AP who had two on the night and is getting ever closer to that remarkable 100 winner of the season already. Northern Bay had his first run for the stable and looks like he will need softer ground in the future but he ran okay.
- Thursday, 14 August 2014 06:43
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
Barton Stacey on the Gallops
Today we have five meetings at Salisbury, Newmarket, Beverley, Chepstow and a jumps card at Fontwell. David has two runners at Fontwell and Northern Bay runs in the first race on the card with Conor O'Farrell on board. This is his first run in this country since being bought at the French summer sale. He has only had two runs over hurdles in France and did finish second on his jumping debut. It will be intertesting to see how he gets on on his British debut. Barton Stacey is David's other runner at the track, and although he was little disappointing last time out he is a winner earlier this summer and AP takes over on board. All three of his career wins have come on good ground and we will just have to see if AP can work his magic!
- 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!
