Another week has passed and since last writing, I can report another winner to add the season’s tally and another five seconds!

Texard (pictured above) was the emphatic winner of his race at Uttoxeter last Wednesday, following up his previous victory at the course last month. He was stepping up in trip from two miles to 2m4f but he bowled along in front and put in and exemplary round of jumping to win as he pleased. Watching the race he looked like he was just ‘lobbing’ along but he had all his rivals in trouble as they jumped the fourth last. Our seven year old probably found the Market Rasen race coming to soon after this on Saturday so we can put a line through that and there is hopefully more to come from this recent acquisition in the future.

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Despite a week with only a handful of jumps fixtures, our good start to the season continued with the successes of d’Jango and Oceanline (pictured above)taking our seasonal tally to 20, which is well ahead of where we were this time last year.  Add in several more places and an impressive two thirds of all runners from Pond House so far this season have reached the frame.

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With the jumps racing calendar slowing down for a few days this week, we are going to be a bit quieter.  Mind you, we do still have three runners today and another three tomorrow, so it would be great if we could add another winner or two before then.  The horses are still running extremely well and another couple of victories, courtesy of Lock Out and Al Roc took our seasonal tally to 18 and consolidated our second position in the trainers’ table at this early stage.

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Despite our busy start to the campaign, I was able to steal away for a few days last week as we went to Portugal with some friends for some much needed r&r and I will be on my travels again later this week as I will be heading across the Channel for the sales at Deauville.  In the meantime the horses continue to run well and a further two winners last week took our seasonal total to 16.

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Our busy start to the season continued last week with another twelve runners.  The success of Do Ya Feel Lucky at Worcester took our seasonal tally to 14, which is good going at this very early stage of the campaign.  The horses are clearly in fine fettle and her success was supplemented by a number of other solid efforts, with five further runners reaching the frame.

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Time seems to be flying by at the moment and on writing there is just one more sleep until Royal Ascot.  Sadly I do not have any runners there this week but Leanne and I our making our usual Tuesday trip to the Royal meeting.  It has been three years since we were last there so it will be good to be back and I am keeping my fingers crossed that I can fit into my suit!

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Time seems to be flying by at the moment and on writing there is just one more sleep until Royal Ascot.  Sadly I do not have any runners there this week but Leanne and I our making our usual Tuesday trip to the Royal meeting.  It has been three years since we were last there so it will be good to be back and I am keeping my fingers crossed that I can fit into my suit!

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