- Friday, 30 December 2011 08:36
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
- Thursday, 29 December 2011 07:56
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
Bygones Sovereign was only narrowly beaten at Leicester yesterday afternoon in what looked to be a fair novices' hurdle for the course. The third home, Medinas had winning form and I think that the first three home will all go on to prove themselves useful hurdlers and win further races.
We have two runners this afternoon at Doncaster, Trop Fort and newcomer Bamboleo. Bamboleo, who runs in the closing bumper certainly looks the part on paper being a brother to Nicky Henderson's very smart hurdler/novice chaser Mossley, with the dam being a half sister to Commanche Court. Tom Scudamore will ride both our runners.
- Wednesday, 28 December 2011 08:21
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
We are off to Leicester this afternoon with a couple of runners, Bygones Sovereign who makes his hurdling debut and Enfant de Lune who participates in the handicap hurdle - both will be ridden by Tom Scudamore. The best of our runners yesterday at Chepstow was Consigliere who ran his best race for some time when third over fences, although he still looks as though he could do with a little bit of respite from the handicapper.
- Tuesday, 27 December 2011 08:19
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
What a great day's Racing we were treated to at Kempton yesterday afternoon with Kauto Star recording an amazing fifth success in the King George VI Chase - I doubt we will ever see another horse achieve that in our lifetimes. Having said that, what about Grands Crus who won his race over an identical trip (albeit carrying 3lbs less) by almost three seconds. A racehorse in full cry can travel quite a long way in three seconds so this was clearly some performance from a novice on only his third start over fences. It is difficult to know how good could he be as to me he looked to be idling a little in front and certainly wasn't fully exerted.
- Monday, 26 December 2011 08:29
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
Well I hope you all enjoyed a fantastic Christmas day and ate and drank plenty like I did?! As much as I like Christmas day itself I do like Boxing day even more! It looks a cracking days racing with nine meetings in this country and three in Ireland. The yard has plenty of runners and we are even over in Ireland with one runner today, Notus De La Tour. Notus is ridden by Robbie Power and although it is a competitive race he is in good form, he will love the ground and we are hoping for a good run. I spoke to our lorry over there this morning and they had a good journey across on Saturday and have been looked after very well by Leopardstown and have enjoyed a great Christmas day! There is some fantastic racing action to look forward to at Kempton and Grands Crus seems very well at home and we are looking forward to seeing him in action in the Feltham Novice's chase at 2.00pm. It is a very competitive race with Bobsworth and Silviniaco Conti both high class performers so fingers crossed for a great contest with our super grey coming out on top!
- Sunday, 25 December 2011 00:00
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
Well, it's Christmas Day and I hope that Father Christmas (or maybe one of his helpers pictured above) has bought you everything that you wanted. As for me, I will settle for a few winners for the yard over the festive period...we should have some decent chances with no fewer than fourteen runners tomorrow across five meetings in this country, as well as at Leopardstown over in Ireland.
- Saturday, 24 December 2011 07:42
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
Although there is no racing on until Boxing Day, it is still all go at the stables. All horses still need feeding, mucking out, grooming and riding out so there will be plenty of staff in over the festive period. David will be planning the travel arrangements for the five Boxing Day meetings, as well as our Irish runners. The owners will all be keen to run and will doubtless take family and friends. At the moment it looks as though most of the meetings will get the go ahead - the biggest threat this year would appear to be the rain rather than freezing conditions that blighted our winter last season.
