- Sunday, 12 August 2012 00:00
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
With all of the excitement of Shergar Cup day at Ascot yesterday, this afternoon feels like something of an anti-climax with only Folkestone and Leicester hosting flat cards this afternoon. However there is excellent action on the menu over in Ireland where The Curragh have no less than four Group races on their card, while there is a jumps meeting at Downpatrick where it looks to be a very competitive day's racing.
- Saturday, 11 August 2012 07:41
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
Another day and no jump racing! Nevermind, there are plenty of meetings on the level to keep us entertained, including the Shergar Cup at Ascot as well as meetings from Haydock, Newmarket, Redcar, Ayr and Lingfield. Oh, and don't forget that the Olympics are coming to a close this weekend!
- Friday, 10 August 2012 07:44
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
- Thursday, 09 August 2012 08:25
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
We had one runner at Kempton yesterday evening, On Khee in the apprentices' handicap over 1m3 1/2f. She was unable to challenge and was ultimately a little disappointing. The course at Kempton has come under fire in recent days from trainers and jockeys who claim that the surface (relaid over the summer) is unacceptable. It is certainly riding on the slow side but then the official going has been described as standard/slow so I don't know what everyone was expecting.
- Wednesday, 08 August 2012 07:16
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
I don't know about you, but I am already getting withdrawal symptoms from lack of jump racing! The stable has one runner this evening at Kempton as On Khee takes in the apprentices' handicap over 1m3 1/2f. Our mare produced a better effort last time out over a mile at Windsor and she could find the step-up in trip to her liking this evening. Willy Twiston-Davies is a positive jockey booking and we will be hoping for the best come 6.00pm this evening. There are four other meetings on the level today at Pontefract, Brighton, Newcastle, Yarmouth.
- Tuesday, 07 August 2012 07:08
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
With a week of no jump racing it is down to the boys on the flat to keep us entertained. There are five meetings scheduled for this afternoon at Bath, Catterick, Wolverhampton, Ripon and Kempton. Talk about race planning - I guess the fellow that looks after the jumps cards is on holiday this week! Anyway I tend to agree with David's sentiments in his column - a return to the old schedule where everyone has a month off before the new season would be far preferable to the odd week off here or there.
- Monday, 06 August 2012 07:03
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
We only had three runners in the one race at Newton Abbot on Saturday and despite an 8lbs rise in the weights for finishing runner-up on his previous start, Raslan still performed creditably to finish fourth in the valuable staying handicap hurdle. He could return in a fortnight for the race he has won twice in the past. It is a blank week on the jump racing front and there are only four flat cards at Ripon, Kempton, Wolverhampton and Carlisle. Carlisle should certainly be interesting - it is a lady jockeys' card. A couple of the races have attracted fields of seventeen runners...I didn't realise we had that many lady jockeys! I wonder if there changing room is going to be big enough, or indeed if it will have enough mirrors?!
