- Tuesday, 04 December 2012 08:28
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
Today there are three meetings taking place, two over the sticks at Folkestone and Towcester as well as an all-weather flat card at Wolverhampton. The stable has one runner this afternoon at Towcester, High Ville who makes his debut for the yard when participating in the bumper. The six year old finished runner-up in a couple of bumpers for previous connections and he sets a decent standard for the others to aim at. Conor O'Farrell takes the ride. Hopefully he will be able to carry on the good form of the yard after Kings Palace's success in the bumper at Plumpton yesterday (pictured above).
- Monday, 03 December 2012 08:31
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
There are three meetings taking place this afternoon - two on the all-weather at Wolverhampton and Kempton as well as a jumps card at Plumpton. The stable has one runner, Kings Palace at Plumpton. The four year old son of King's Theatre makes his racecourse debut in the concluding bumper and he will be partnered by champion jockey A P McCoy who makes a fair replacement(!) for Timmy Murphy and Tom Scudamore.
- Sunday, 02 December 2012 00:00
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
There are three meetings this afternoon at Carlisle, Leicester and an all-weather bumper card at Kempton. Just imagine, six race full of bumper horses - I am surprised there are that many National Hunt flat horses in training! Of course, I am only joking...a few of these races have special conditions to allow for horses that have been over hurdles/fences in the past (who would otherwise be ineligible) to compete. We have one runner this afternoon at Leicester, Top Wood (pictured above) who bids to bounce back from a disappointing performance at Cheltenham last time out when he just ran to freely. Hadden Frost, who won aboard the stable's Weather Babe at Towcester yesterday takes the mount.
- Saturday, 01 December 2012 08:16
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
I feel very sorry for Timmy Murphy who suffered a back injury when falling in the last race at Newbury yesterday afternoon aboard the Jo Davis trained Leeroar - we wish him a speedy recovery although he is likely to spend 4-6 weeks on the sidelines. Tom Scudamore re-routes from Newcastle to ride our three runners at Newbury Star Of Angels, The Package and Consigliere, while Conor O'Farrell takes the ride aboard Junior in the Rehearsal Chase where the good news is that they have passed an early morning inspection.
- Friday, 30 November 2012 08:33
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
It's the second day of the Hennessy meeting at Newbury today and there is plenty of cracking action to help warm us up a bit! There are also jumps meetings at Musselburgh (where following an early morning inspection, they will take a look again to see if the frost has come out of the ground), Doncaster and Wolverhampton on the flat. The stable has five runners at Newbury this afternoon, Quinte du Chatelet, Dynaste, No Secrets, Matuhi and Bygones Sovereign. The big one at Newbury is the novices' chase that Dynaste contests - our grey was very impressive on his debut over fences at Cheltenham and he looks to be one of the most promising novice chasers in the country. The ground at Newbury is likely to be very testing but at least it should be protected from the frost with the groundstaff covering the course with ground sheets overnight.
- Thursday, 29 November 2012 08:02
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
It looks like being a busier day today with four meetings taking place - one on the flat at Kempton and three jumps meetings at Newbury, Taunton and Uttoxeter. The going is likely to be very testing at all three of the jumps meetings. The stable has one runner at Taunton, Bladoun (pictured above) who was an unlucky loser when capsizing at the last at Chepstow on his most recent start with the race seemingly at his mercy. Tom Scudamore takes the ride and a clear round is just what the doctor ordered - hopefully, he will be able to atone for last time's disappointment.
- Wednesday, 28 November 2012 08:05
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
Following the abandonment of Fontwell and Wetherby over jumps, we are left with three all-weather flat cards at Lingfield, Wolverhampton and Kempton today. Talking of the all-weather it was a bit of a shocker to learn that Southwell will not be racing again this year due to water damage following the floods. I saw a picture of the track and it does more closely resemble a fishing lake than a racecourse (a similar comment also applies to Worcester). That damage means that Southwell will be losing their next ten fixtures and that scale of abandonment is a serious matter for any track. Worcester are suffering because the River Severn burst it's banks and flooded the track...will it ever stop raining?! Fortunately for us, despite the adverse conditions the horses have not missed any work due to our great all-weather gallop (pictured above).
