Ton Up!

                 Problema Tic

What a great weekend for David and the stable with three winners which has brought up the century of winners for the season.  Roi De Rose got a great ride from Conor O'Farrell to win at Bangor on Saturday.  He seemed to be going the least well of the field in the race but in the final circuit he really came to life and ran out a very impressive winner.  He certainly appears to have enjoyed the step up in trip to three miles in his last two races having won them both!  Problema Tic was making his Pond House debut up at Ayr and he was another decisive winner for Scottish owners Sean and Josie Tracey.  He jumped very well for Tom Scudamore and he looks a very nice buy from the Henderson team.  It can always be a slight worry buying one from such a top yard but he certainly was impressive and on this form he can certainly win again.   It was nearly a treble on Saturday when Enfant De Lune missed out narrowly in the opening race of the card at Ayr.  Young conditional jockey Frank Hayes gave our recent Ffos Las winner a great ride and battled all the way to the line to finish a gallant second, only beaten a neck.

David reached the 100 winners for the season courtesy of Diamonds Return at Wincanton yesterday.  Conor O'Farrell was riding for his father Seamus so it was quite a family affair and there were a few celebrations last night!  Of our other runners over the weekend I am pleased to report that they are all okay.  Junior did not run his race in the Scottish National and Bathwick Man was a little disappointing but Catch Tammy and Unex Degas ran good races to both finish third at Stratford and Wincanton respectively.

The stable has two runners at the evening meeting at Ffos Las today.  Spirit of Barbados is making his chasing debut while Loves a Brazilian is making his racecourse debut.  Both are being ridden by Tom Scu.  I wonder who named Loves a Brazilian?!  Lets just hope he does not take a short cut on the track!

Unfortunately racing tomorrow at Newton Abbot has been abandoned.  They have had a lot of rain at the Devon track and with more forecast it has been decided to abandon the meeting which is a great shame but there will be plenty more racing action to come from down there over the summer.

In the football Man Utd looked a little more nervous than our head lad Eddie Buckley (a United fan!)!  United were two goals up against Everton but ended up drawing 4-4.  Man City meanwhile won at Wolves and now look to me to be slight favourites for the title.  The Manchester derby coming up will be like a cup final and I can't wait to see it!

Was it worth all the trouble to hold the Bahrain Grand Prix yesterday?  Vettel won but I am not sure it did the country any good and I see a BBC team were thrown out!