- Monday, 14 June 2021 10:53
- Written by David Pipe
Koi Dodville wins at Aintree
It has been great to have some lovely warm sunshine in the last few days but it has meant with the ground quickening up everywhere we have not had that many runners, nor have we got many coming up in the next few days. A handful of horses who we were possibly aiming to run have now gone on their holidays as we decided it was better for them to have their break now instead of continually waiting for rain. I see the weather forecast is set to change the middle of the week so it will bring some much needed irrigation for a lot of racecourses however.
- Monday, 07 June 2021 14:05
- Written by David Pipe
Lady Reset Winner at Leicester
We have only had four runners since last writing but I am delighted it yielded two winners, one on the flat and one over jumps. Lady Reset got the week off to a good stark by winning the flat seller at Leicester over 1m2f with Cieran Fallon in good style. Things haven’t quite gone her way in two starts over hurdles since returning from a winter break but she hasn’t had the fast ground she loves. She isn’t very big but has a big heart and tries hard which is all you can ask. On official ratings she should have won the race but as we know it doesn’t always work out like this and it was nice she was able to go and do it on the day. We had to go to £8,500 to buy her back at the auction afterwards but there should be plenty more fun to be had to her while the sun keeps shining this summer.
- Monday, 31 May 2021 13:12
- Written by David Pipe
Koi Dodville (in second) could Debut at Weekend
The horses continue in good form which is great although it was slightly frustrating our trip to Scotland yesterday resulted in three second places!! All our horses ran their races and there were no excuses but if just one of them could have been first…
- Monday, 24 May 2021 13:10
- Written by David Pipe
Typically, with all of the winter horses now out to grass, mother nature has decided to bucket-it down! Indeed, over the last couple of weeks we have barely had a dry day and it has resulted in ground at many tracks that you would normally find in the depths of winter. That includes today when we were due to run Ranco at Ludlow.
- Monday, 17 May 2021 13:20
- Written by David Pipe
Many of the horses may be on their holidays, but there is still plenty to keep us busy around the yard at Pond House. The empty stables will need steam cleaning and disinfecting before they are used once again, whilst general housekeeping duties still need to be adhered to to keep the place up to scratch. We still have some horses to run over the summer months and with the sales taking place, there is little let-up in the pace.
- Monday, 10 May 2021 15:31
- Written by David Pipe
Dell’ Arca turned back the years with a tremendous performance to land the valuable Long Distance handicap hurdle at Haydock on Saturday. Our ever-green veteran was a popular winner under conditional jockey Fergus Gillard in a dramatic finish. He was our third winner of the new campaign, whilst the remainder of our runners have also performed with great credit.
- Monday, 03 May 2021 11:36
- Written by David Pipe
The stable enjoyed the best possible start to the new jumps season on Saturday when Paricolor landed the first race on the card, the selling handicap hurdle at Hexham under Fergus Gillard. Things were to get better too when Nordic Combined (pictured above) completed a double of on the day in the two mile handicap hurdle. With a second to add to those winners, it was certainly a worthwhile (if long) journey up north.
