- Saturday, 18 August 2012 07:03
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
Hunterview on the Gallops
David has sent two runners to Perth today to contest the summer champion hurdle which has very good prize money on offer. His Excellency and Hunterview both run in the 4.15pm race and 11 runners contest this race for the £25,000 added prize money. His Excellency is making his Pond House debut after being bought at Doncaster sales recently. He has fairly decent form in Ireland but this will be no easy task for our four year old carrying top weight although promising young rider Kieron Edgar takes a handy ten pounds off his back. This is Kieron's first ride as a conditional in this country. He was champion novice point to point rider in the Devon and Cornwall area last season and decided to turn pro over the summer. He is a name to watch out for in the coming months.
- Friday, 17 August 2012 06:50
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
It is a blank day for the stable on the runners front and the calendar is back to all flat cards with six meetings taking place at Newbury, Newcastle, Nottingham, Newmarket, Kempton and Catterick. Newbury plays host to a good Listed race and if Mick Channon's Sandreamer appreciates the drop back to five furlongs this filly certainly has the form to win the Bathwick Tyres sponsored race...the St Hugh's Stakes is the best race taking place in this country today.
- Thursday, 16 August 2012 07:09
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
There is a busy day's racing ahead with six meetings taking place - four of them on the flat at Salisbury, Newmarket, Beverley and Chepstow as well as two jumps cards (at last!) at Stratford and Fontwell. The stable has four runners at Fontwell this evening - Dandyvic, Starlife, Dukes Art and Lahib The Fifth. Starlife makes her debut for the yard and looks very interesting having won easily last time out at Auteuil, the ground will be a lot different tonight but she works like a decent horse. Lahib The Fifth tries to build on his encouraging first run for the yard, while Dukes Art takes in the 2m2f handicap hurdle. Over at Chepstow Vergrigio has his third start for us on the level and will be ridden by apprentice jockey Simon Pearce.
- Wednesday, 15 August 2012 07:23
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
The ups and downs of our wonderful sport were once again beautifully illustrated yesterday afternoon when Tomway was a costly failure at Wolverhampton. Footballing star Wayne Rooney had enjoyed his first winner as an owner less than 24 hours before and his two year old colt had been well-backed into favouritism to add to that success. However, he was unruly before the start (the horse that is!) and never threatened to land a blow in finishing fourth in the nine furlong nursery...back down to earth with a bang I guess.
- Tuesday, 14 August 2012 07:34
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
I think that it is good news for everyone involved that Channel 4 Racing have the rights to all televised racing on terestrial television and what is more, Channel 4 landed another coup yesterday when they announced the excellent Clare Balding as their lead presenter from 2013. The major drawback is that John Francome has said that he will not be continuing in his role with the show, which is a shame as John always said what he thought (and often said it with a wicked sense of humour). The only other negative as far as I can tell is that they haven't yet said that McCririck will not be appearing!
- Monday, 13 August 2012 07:37
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
It is yet another blank day on the jumping front, but at least there is some light at the end of the tunnel with some action due to take place at Stratford and Fontwell on Thursday. The stable has some entries at Fontwell and I can't wait to see the National Hunt action again. In the meantime we have five meetings this afternoon at Ffos Las, Lingfield, Kempton, Thirsk and Wolverhampton - it looks very tricky with some very tight handicaps that will take a bit of working out.
- Sunday, 12 August 2012 00:00
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
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.
