- Friday, 19 April 2013 07:27
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
It's a busy day with five meetings taking place today - three over the sticks at Ayr, Fontwell and Southwell as well as two flat meetings at Newbury and Bath. It is the first day of the Scottish Grand National meeting at Ayr and the stable has one runner, Amigo (pictured above) participates in the three mile handicap hurdle at 4.25pm He has been running creditably all season and will appreciate the rain softened ground, although he does have to shoulder top weight of 11-12. Stable jockey Tom Scudamore takes the ride.
- Thursday, 18 April 2013 07:25
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
It is another afternooon of top class racing with the second day of Cheltenham's April meeting taking place, while on the flat it is day two at flat racing's HQ, Newmarket. There are also flat meetings at Ripon and Wolverhampton. The stable has a couple of runners at Cheltenham, Close House and Ashkazar. The latter has always been a high class individual and while he has been a little disappointing of late, he did pop-up around here in this race 12 months ago (pictured above) and is only 1lb higher today so you can't write him off just yet.
- Wednesday, 17 April 2013 06:59
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
Today there are four meetings taking place, including a quality jumps card at Cheltenham and three flat meetings at Newmarket, Beverley and Kempton. As you would expect from the home of National Hunt racing, the card at Cheltenham looks to be very competitive. The stable has four runners at the Prestbury track - African Broadway, Poole Master, Qalinas (pictured above) and Goulanes. African Broadway should certainly be better suited to this sounder surface having appeared not to enjoy the heavy ground at Newbury on his latest outing.
- Tuesday, 16 April 2013 07:44
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
There are three meetings taking place this afternoon with two jumps cards at Exeter and Kempton as well as a flat card at Southwell. The stable has just the one runner today, Off The Wall (pictured above, farside) who competes in the novices' hurdle at Exeter at 2.00pm - he will be ridden by Tom Scudamore. The ground at Exeter is officially soft (heavy in places), while Kempton is soft so the recent rain has definitely got into the ground and could find out all the top of the ground runners.
- Monday, 15 April 2013 07:23
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
It's another blank day on the jumping front with just three meetings taking place on the level this afternoon at Redcar, Windsor and Newcastle. I thought that Bois des Aigles ran respectably enough when finishing sixth in a fair looking maiden hurdle at Wincanton yesterday afternoon. He has certainly shown enough ability in his three starts over timber to suggest that he can be competitive in handicaps once allotted a mark by the assessor. There were loads of non-runners on account of the terrible ground yesterday - the rain had really managed to get into it and conditions became extremely testing, a theme that was replicated at most of the tracks. Bathwick Tyres sponsored every one of the races at Wincanton yesterday and also presented prizes to the grooms responsible for each of the winners - well done to them, Wayne and Sarah give so much to our sport and it is great to see them also recognise the hard work of the stable staff that is put in at home.
- Sunday, 14 April 2013 00:00
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
Just for a change it is a blank day on the level, but the really good news is that there are three National Hunt meetings taking part this afternoon at Wincanton, Ffos Las and Market Rasen. The stable has one runner, Bois des Aigles in the two mile maiden hurdle at Wincanton today and he will be ridden by Tom Scudamore. Our four year old has improved with each start and finished a decent third three weeks ago - this does look like quite a competitive race for the grade but we will be doing our best. Our stable sponsors Bathwick Tyres are sponsoring the entire eight race card - yet another indication of the fantastic support they have been to racing in this country.
- Saturday, 13 April 2013 07:06
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
There was another notable milestone achieved yesterday as Western Warhorse became David's 100th winner of the season with a convincing success in the National Hunt novices' hurdle at Chepstow under Tom Scudamore. David made it through the £1million prize money barrier last week and to make it past 100 this week is a good achievement - with a fortnight of the season remaining and a few big meetings left, there is still room to improve on those totals yet.
