I’m pretty much done for the flat season now and looking to the jumpers. Mon Michel was down to run tomorrow, but he doesn’t stand his ground after working moderately midweek – we think he’s ok but just needs a little more time. My first runner of the jumps season proper will probably be Ours at Chepstow on Wednesday, and …
A new one for the string
I added another horse to my string today – Max One Two Three, who won so well at York last time. I’ve been eyeing her up for a while I was intending to try and buy her before the York race but I didn’t get around to it – I had a decent bet on her but the price went …
Ary goes for a big prize
The boss had a late one last night after the Betfair Pro-Am Golf Tournament so I’ll fill in for now. Bert has Prince Ary running at Market Rasen (3.45) today in a valuable handicap hurdle with £30,000+ to the winner. He was touched off by a short head on his only previous visit to the track in a similarly competitive …
Runners This Week
As noted by Bert below, I€™m going to be contributing to the blog from time to time to help keep things up to date and maybe prompt further thoughts and discussion. Comments are very welcome. Shepherds Warning runs in the 2.50 at Pontefract to-morrow €“ a Nursery Handicap for fillies run over a mile. She has been raised 17 pounds …
Tragic News
Captain Hurricane died of a heart attack this morning on the gallops. He had recently been transferred to Tom Dascombe and was doing his first serious piece of work this morning. He ran a bit flat and the jockey decided to get off and walk him back to the stable – a few minutes later he keeled over and died …
Have you seen this man?
Mick Stone is my racing manager, and he’s going to start contributing to my blog. I think this is a good thing – I go through long periods when I can’t find the time to post and Mick will help keep it fresh. He’ll be making stable trips and reporting back, and no doubt he’ll find a lot more to …
My sweet lords
I have a few interesting runners coming up. Shepherd’s Warning runs over a mile tomorrow at Ayr – she is carrying far more weight than she would do in a handicap and will no doubt be a very big price but could run well. Lord Snooty finally comes out on Friday at Newmarket and I’m excited about that – he’s …
Winker waits
Pete called us after Winker‘s work this morning and said he is still running a bit flat and needs more time. We could have run him over the weekend in group company but he’s too good a horse to take liberties with. The Middle Park is only three weeks away and that is his next target – he should be …
Baldy rides again
A poor day yesterday, and the end to a bad week of betting. I’m going to take a break from betting fairly soon – it’s too time consuming and too much of a distraction. Baldovina makes her hurdling bow today in a pretty uncompetitive maiden. On the face of it she has a lot going for her – she has …
French double
I had a long chat with Pete today. It’s all systems go for Winker on Sunday week in the Prix Morny, and he’s working extremely well. I don’t see anything beating him – if he wins we may go for an extremely aggressive 2yo campaign with him. The best news he had concerned Bouguereau. Pete was on his way to …