- Thursday, 10 October 2013 07:07
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
There are four meetings this afternoon and it is great to have a bit of local jumps action to look forward to at Exeter. The stable has five runners: Bathwick Man, Royal Peak, Standing Ovation, Basil Fawlty and Mr Trilby. Bathwick Man has been in good form of late, finishing in the frame on his last four starts and he should once again go well under Kieron Edgar who takes a handy 7lbs off his back. Meanwhile Standing Ovation (pictured above) is on a recovery mission having fallen at the second fence at Uttoxeter when sent off favourite - he is partnered by Conor O'Farrell.
- Wednesday, 09 October 2013 06:53
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
Today there are four meetings taking place, two on the flat at Nottingham and Kempton as well as jumps cards at Towcester and Ludlow. Surprisingly, it is the National Hunt meeting at Ludlow that has the most prize money on offer today with £60,000 up for grabs, so well done to them. The stable has one runner today, Purple 'N Gold who goes in the 1m3f handicap at Kempton - he has won at the track twice previously and has been running with credit over hurdles as well, winning at Uttoxeter (pictured above). I think he will stay this trip and former champion jockey Ryan Moore is in the saddle again and is an obvious positive.
- Tuesday, 08 October 2013 07:24
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
Today we have four flat meetings to look forward to at Leicester, Catterick, Brighton and Wolverhampton. The seaside track at Brighton are offering just £28,000 in prize money across their eight race card - in some of their races, if you finish fourth you get a whopping £144.30! At some tracks that wouldn't even be enough to cover the cost of the champagne. These tracks that consistently offer poor prize money must be laughing all the way to the bank, especially as they keep getting so many runners.
- Monday, 07 October 2013 07:24
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
The stable enjoyed a good winner at Huntingdon as My Brother Sylvest landed the 2m1/2f novices' handicap chase by a comfortable twenty lengths. With almost £8,000 in winning prize money it was definitely a worthwhile trip - Scu commented that a few of his competitors had run below par, but I don't think the handicapper is going to take much notice of what he has to say! I'm sure Tom makes a valid point, so let's hope the handicapper tends to agree! This afternoon there are just three flat cards at Pontefract, Windsor and Wolverhampton - the stable has no runners this afternoon.
- Sunday, 06 October 2013 08:03
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
Soliwery (nearside) on the Gallops
Today there are three jumps cards in this country at Kelso, Huntingdon and Uttoxeter. David has three runners this afternoon at two of the meetings. My Brother Sylvest runs in the 3.55pm race at Huntingdon and Tom Scu goes here to ride him. He won a chase on his penultimate start at Ffos Las and didn't run too bady back over hurdles in a competitive event at Newton Abbot last time. This looks a fairly competitive open race but he should run okay. We have two runners at Uttoxeter. Soliwery kicks things off in the conditional jockeys maiden hurdle. He is having his first run for the yard and his first run for quite a while. He works nicely at home so it will be interesting to see how he gets on. Sir Frank returns to hurdles after disappointing over fences last time and Conor O'Farrell rides him.
- Saturday, 05 October 2013 07:02
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
David had winner at Fontwell yesterday afternoon courtesy of Tom Scu and King's Palace winning the last race of the day, a maiden hurdle. He looks a useful prospect having already shown some nice form in bumpers and he showed no ill effect from his fall on his hurdles debut back in January. Leading all the way he jumped well and despite running a bit green in the closing stages he won nicely enough in the end in what looked not too bad a novice hurdle. He could run next at Cheltenham at the October meeting, he looks a stayer in the making and David says he could be a Welsh National type in time. Street Entertainer finished fourth at the Sussex track but was beaten a fair way, he surely has to be better than this. Meanwhile up at Hexham Decoy also ran well to finish second. He was only beaten a couple of lengths and he should be up to winning off his mark soon unless the handicapper does something silly!
- Friday, 04 October 2013 07:19
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
There are four meetings taking place this afternoon, two on the flat at Ascot and Wolverhampton as well as two jumps meetings at Fontwell and Hexham. David casts his net far and wide today as the stable has runners at both meetings - Street Entertainer and Kings Palace at Fontwell and Decoy at Hexham. Kings Palace (picture above) looked to be a really useful recruit when bolting up in a Plumpton bumper last season and followed that up with a narrow defeat in an Ascot Listed contest - he will be partnered by Tom Scudamore this afternoon. Meanwhile champion jockey A P McCoy has the leg up aboard Street Entertainer and Conor O'Farrell makes the long journey up to Hexham for the ride aboard Decoy. It is his first ride at the track, so let's hope that it is a lucky one!
