- Thursday, 12 July 2012 07:05
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
Too Generous After Winning at Worcester Last Week
Today there are five flat meetings at Newmarkat, Doncaster, Epsom, Folkestone and Warwick but the last named meeting has to pass an 8am inspection. Did anyone see the rain coming down at Catterick yesterday? The meeting was abandoned after the 3.50pm race and the track looked like it would have been better to hold a motorbike scramble meeting! Yet as we have been saying all along it is a mixed bag across the country with the weather at the moment and the ground at todays Folkestone meeting is given as good to firm! All the other meetings are either soft or heavy! We are due quite a bit more rain at Pond House today but surely the sun has got to start shining soon?!
- Wednesday, 11 July 2012 07:02
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
There are five meetings on today with four of them on the flat at Yarmouth, Catterick, Lingfield and Kempton but by far the most interesting could be the jumps card at Worcester. The Racing Post are reporting that there could be a boycott of the final race on the card in a protest against prize money levels - the race in question falls £900 short of the tarriff recommended by the Horsemen's Group.
- Tuesday, 10 July 2012 07:23
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
It's not very often that I get my picture on the front page of the Racing Post, but sure enough there's a picture of yours truly leading in our 1994 Grand National winner Miinnehoma. As you will most likely know by now, Miinnehoma sadly passed away over the weekend - he was 29 years old and lived out his retirement at the yard. He was the oldest living Grand National winner and although like me, he was going a bit grey in the end, he was a popular regular visitor to Aintree for the parade of former winners.
- Monday, 09 July 2012 07:17
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
Today there are three flat meetings at Ayr, Ripon and Windsor and the stable has one runner, Vergrigio at Windsor's Monday night meeting where he will be partnered by Simon Pearce. I thought that Grand Exit produced a decent first effort since joining the stable at Market Rasen yesterday afternoon when finishing runner-up in the novices- it was her first start in over 1,000 days and the mare stayed on nicely in the closing stages under Tom Scudamore. It was her first start over hurdles and I am sure she can only come on for the experience and there must be a little race within her compass, maybe over a little further.
- Sunday, 08 July 2012 00:00
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
Gosh, with only two meetings scheduled for this afternoon, I hope they both beat the weather. Ayr host a flat card, while we will have three runners over the sticks at Market Rasen. With Newton Abbot abandoning their Monday meeting, Uttoxeter (Tuesday) unraceable at present due to waterlogging on the track and Worcester (Wednesday) already heavy in places and no other jumps fixtures scheduled for the remainder of the week, it could be the last jump racing that we have for a while.
- Saturday, 07 July 2012 07:08
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
Despite the heavy rainfall, hopefully we will have some racing today. Amazingly both Haydock and Beverley have already passed morning inspections, while Sandown say that they should be fit to race. It is Coral Eclipse day at Sandown this afternoon and while the race may have lost some of it's lustre with the defection of the now retired So You Think, it is still one of the best races of the season and traditionally where the middle distance classic crop get to take on their elders so let's hope that it goes ahead without any problems.
- Friday, 06 July 2012 07:16
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
It's a blank day on the jumping front and the flat meeting at Warwick has already had to be abandoned. The Met Office has issued an amber warning as they predict a month's worth of rain will fall over the next 24 hours in northern and central parts of England. That leaves racing from Sandown, Doncaster, Haydock and Beverley today, as well as action from Ireland at Bellewstown and Wexford - I see that two Irish cards are worth €59,000 and €67,000...over here only Sandown's card is worth more. Why is the prizemoney so much better over there?
