- Sunday, 22 January 2012 00:00
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
The stable has three runners this afternoon at Towcester, Bygones Sovereign, Top Wood and Chartreux and we look to have some decent chances. Bygones Sovereign produced a decent first effort for the stable when runner-up to a promising type at Leicester on his hurdling debut, while Top Wood has his first run for us today after racking up three successes in French bumpers. High class hurdler Chartreux looks interesting as he bids to atone for an unlucky fall on his chasing debut at Hereford. Tom Scudamore takes the ride aboard all three.
- Saturday, 21 January 2012 08:05
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
It looks to be another high quality day's racing ahead and the stable has runners at three of this afternoon's meetings, Ascot, Haydock and Wincanton. I'm So Lucky is the stable representative in the Victor Chandler Chase. With over £100,000 up for grabs (and prize money down to sixth place) it is obviously a very competitive race with five of the eight runners already winners so far this term. I'msingingtheblues contests the other valuable chase on the card and has to contend with topweight, although Conor O'Farrell takes a handy 3lbs off his back. He won at this course three starts back, so let's hope he can do it again today!
- Friday, 20 January 2012 08:27
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
- Thursday, 19 January 2012 08:11
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
The stable has six runners this afternoon - four at our local track Taunton and two at Lingfield. Fortunately it has warmed up again in so there are no problems envisaged for either meeting. Kilrye, Lucy's Perfect, Street Entertainer and Moose Moran represent the stable at Taunton and the last named makes his debut for the stable this afternoon. Moose Moran was a 97 rated flat performer at his best for Sir Henry Cecil and he certainly looks like an interesting recruit.
- Wednesday, 18 January 2012 09:02
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
While we may not have any runners on the track today, the pace in the yard keeps up unrelenting with all of the horses to be exercised and schooled. Fortunately the recent cold snap seems to be behind us, although as you can see from the pictures from Saturday - with our state of the art gallops, the frost doesn't stop us from getting the horses out.
- Tuesday, 17 January 2012 08:41
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
It could be a bit of a quiet day on the racing front. Fakenham abandoned their jumping card yesterday, while Folkestone will face a second inspection this morning at 10am to see if racing can go ahead. Add to that, the fact that there is no all-weather racing this afternoon and we could quite easily be reliant on Ayr for our racing fix! We have no runners today, although (weather permitting) we will have runners at Newbury tomorrow.
- Monday, 16 January 2012 08:13
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
It's another cold start to the morning (as you can see from the picture of the gallops) and it looks like being a quite day with the stable having no runners this afternoon.
I thought that the stable's runners performed creditably in the main at the weekend without quite getting their heads in front. The trouble is a few of them look to be in the grip of the handicapper - not least the likeable mare Dream Esteem who keeps going up in the weights for finishing in the frame - she finished a close third at Kempton on Saturday and no doubt will face another hike. It does seem a little harsh - the horses certainly creep up the ratings a lot quicker than they drop down them and if you are fortunate enough to pinch one, trainers are often forced to run again quickly under a penalty for fear of what the handicapper will do to them.
