A fine morning but forecast very unsettled. Solid effort from Ned Tanner to be 3rd at Aintree yesterday, busy at Kelso today all long odds, hopefully they can run well. On to Musselburgh tomorrow where the ground may well have eased from the current good to soft. This won’t bother Artic Mann, the first of our [...]
'tis the time of year to be busy and it seems that we are with runners planned every day for the next week starting with one at Aintree tomorrow. A fine day here today but rain expected pretty well everywhere tonight, so the ground may well ease from the present good to soft with soft places. [...]
A fine day, much better after a very wet and windy weekend. A welcome winner at Ayr yesterday with Beat the Retreat jumping for fun to win in gritty style and defy my concerns re the ground. Elsewhere on the card Jirko made a bold bid to make all but ended up an excellent 2nd, more [...]
Lovely weather today but to be very wet tonight and a weather warning for rain at Ayr where we are hoping to be racing with six runners tomorrow on ground that is currently soft. Plans may change but as things stand we kick off the afternoon with Jirko running in the 12.15; he made a very [...]
Stormy weather with heavy blustery showers and gales, enough to knock the power out last night - fortunately back on this evening. A heavy fall for Dom at Musselburgh this afternoon, still awaiting assesment in A&E but certainly has a broken collar bone - hopefully nothing worse, I know he will be very disappointed with several [...]
Changeable weather, big swings in temperature and plenty of showers about. Musselburgh's first jump fixture tomorrow and we have one runner, Maillot Blanc in the 3.20 with Dom on board, 11 run. He ran very well to be second at Kelso last time and if he can repeat that round this different type of track then [...]
Bright and cold here in London where I am briefly for NTF business, looks the same at home, drying up after a wet week. Good to soft now at Kelso and we have 8 declared runners starting with Burning it Up in the conditional jockeys handicap hurdle at 12.55. He steps up in trip and ought [...]
It has turned cold and wet this afternoon and good to be in the office after a busy and productive morning on the gallops. No joy at Carlisle yesterday but both horses ran well enough to finish 4th; Hombre couldn't have been expected to do any better, Dubai Days possibly could but he put in a [...]
A wet morning, brighter now. A better day at Kelso yesterday, no winners but a second, third, two fourths and a fifth. Encouraging to see Maillot Blanc back to form, an excellent chasing debut from Jirko, great run back after a long lay off for Better be Definite, Scarlet Jet struggled under his penalty and will [...]
Warm and sunny this morning, tee shirt weather in November, whatever next. No runners at Hexham today as a result of Eagles Cairn slipping over on his way to the lorry - not good for the Trainer's blood pressure! Hopefully he will be fine in a few days, that's the main thing, frustrating. We will be [...]