- Sunday, 23 December 2012 00:00
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
There is no racing in this country today as we take our annual Christmas break, the next action coming at Kempton on Boxing Day. However there is a meeting taking place in Ireland as Thurles carries the baton. The ground there surprisingly(!) is going to be really heavy. I'm surprised there isn't an all-weather card on at Lingfield - they seem to race there every day!
- Saturday, 22 December 2012 08:07
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
Well despite further heavy rain overnight the signs for racing today are looking positive with Haydock passing an early morning inspection - the stable has one runner at the meeting with Conor O'Farrell partnering Top Wood. One thing is for sure, the ground is sure to be very testing. There are three other meetings taking place with Ascot hosting an excellent jumps card featuring the Ladbroke Hurdle, while there are all-weather flat meetings taking place at Lingfield and Wolverhampton. We have five runners at Ascot - Kazlian (pictured above) and Dan Breen in the big one, as well as Wings Of Icarus, My Brother Sylvest and El Lobo. The bottomless ground will no doubt sort out plenty of the fields today, so whatever you do make sure your horse is going to handle heavy going.
- Friday, 21 December 2012 07:58
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
What a good performance from Shaking Hands to land the staying handicap chase at Towcester yesterday on bottomless ground. Under a good ride from Tom Scudamore he made every yard of the running and was never headed - he has always been a resolute galloper and coped well with the heavy going on this very stiff track. It was somewhat reminiscent of Master Overseer last week, not least that he was carrying the same colours (which stayed very clean!) of Brocade Racing who are enjoying a good run of form. I think that Shaking Hands must be about the only one who loves the rain coming down! Purple 'N Gold ran respectably in third place at Kempton last night and perhaps a drop back in trip could be the answer for him?
- Thursday, 20 December 2012 09:15
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
The bad news is that following 31mm of rain overnight, Exeter have taken the sensible step of abandoning their meeting this afternoon. The good news is that (somewhat against the odds) Towcester have been given the go ahead to race today meaning that we do at least have some jump racing to look forward to, as well as two all-weather flat cards at Lingfield and Kempton. Consequently we only have one runner over the sticks, Shaking Hands (pictured above) who will now be partnered by Tom Scudamore instead of Tom Bellamy - fortunately Shaking Hands is a doughty stayer and they will need to be this afternoon...Towcester is a really testing track and the ground is going to be very heavy - stamina really will be at a premium today. We also have a rare runner on the all-weather at Kempton this evening as Purple 'N Gold makes his debut for the yard in the 1m4f handicap under Simon Pearce.
- Wednesday, 19 December 2012 07:54
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
Today there are four meetings taking place with two fixtures over jumps at Newbury and Ludlow as well as a couple of all-weather flat cards Lingfield and Kempton. It looks like a good quality competitive card at Newbury for this mid-week meeting and the stable is represented by one runner at the Berkshire track this afternoon, Leader Of The Gang who makes his debut for the yard in the maiden hurdle and will be partnered by Tom Scudamore.
- Tuesday, 18 December 2012 08:20
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
It was a real Welsh day at Ffos Las yesterday, with only one English trained winner on the entire card. That sole success came courtesy of David's Vieux Lion Rouge in the concluding bumper, although it's not exactly a good old fashioned English name! The three year old clearly relished the testing conditions and came further and further clear in the straight to score by an impressive fourteen lengths on his racecourse debut and he looks like yet another promising bumper horse that David has to work with.
- Monday, 17 December 2012 08:03
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
It was a good weekend for the yard with another couple of winners at Lingfield to add to the tally. Conor O'Farrell produced a couple of excellent rides to score aboard Take Over Sivola (pictured above) and Tanerko Emery to score with a bit in hand. Tanerko Emery looks to be a very bright prospect after following-up last week's success under topweight of 12-2 in testing conditions. Meanwhile we had a number of other runners that performed creditably including His Excellency who was only just run out of it close home at Cheltenham - he was trying to give 8lbs to the winner Shooters Hill so this was clearly a very good effort under champion jockey A P McCoy.
