Go on Baldy

Only one runner today – Baldovina at Fontwell.  I’ll be very surprised if she wins. There’s a few I’ll be backing.  Tariq has worked out very well and looks the right sort at Longchamp.  Creachadoir apparently goes well at home.  Armenian Boy is decent in the third at Fontwell.  A friend tried to buy Malt or Mash recently but they …

Eazy does it

Hoorah!! Another win for the heroes as Major Eazy triumphs at Salisbury in a pretty hot conditions race under a nice ride from Richard Hughes.  He was returned at 12-1, but there was clearly a bit of money for him (ahem…).  He’ll go into the sales at some point and this will have done him no harm at all – we’ll probably …

In other news

I’m still reeling over the Winker news – apart from anything else it was only a gentle piece of work today.  I really believe he was a virtual certainty in the Middle Park – Pete certainly thought so and the only threat looked to be Sir Gerry – he would have been a very short price.  Reading the Betfair forum I …

Winker out

Desperate news from Pete – Winker had a setback today and will now miss the rest of the season.  He did a light piece of work this morning and he was fine immediately afterwards, but he was sore and a bit stiff later on and they called in the vet.  An X-ray showed no damage, but the vet has advised us …

All guns blazing

Winker made the front page of the Racing Post today as Jeremy went public with our ambitious plans.  Winker is extremely well and we think he’s the best 2yo out there – we’re going to try to win both the Middle Park and the Dewhurst to prove our point, and we’re hoping we can persuade Jim Bolger to run New Approach against …