Cold today, bright and dry with a chilly easterly wind.  On to Perth tomorrow where the final chapter of the 2025/26 Jumps Season will be written over the next three days.  We hope to have eleven runners in total and then finish up by taking Not the Chablis to the Fife point to point at Pusk on Saturday prior to a team barbecue that evening.  That will be that then with no racing for a week prior to the 2026/27 Season kicking off at Hexham on Saturday 2nd May.

Be lovely to bag another winner or two to end the season on a good note but it looks very competitive with all sorts of Trainers from up and down the country making their way to Perth.  I expect the ground will start at good to soft and dry through the week, not too much I hope but our Friday runners like good ground.

We have four declared tomorrow and start with Eagles Cairn in the Maiden Hurdle at 13.40; for one reason or other he has lost his way and PU on his last three starts, whilst this is a strong maiden we just felt it was worth dropping back from handicap company to try to restore his (and our!) confidence so he will be ridden accordingly – Bruce rides and 10 run.

Eagle’s Cairn

Just an Artist returns to the scene of her October win at 125-1 and she certainly won’t be those odds in the mares handicap hurdle at 16.10 after a solid and generally consistent season.  The track, going and trip should all suit well and if she can repeat the form of her last run at Musselburgh she ought to be involved at the business end – Bruce rides and 7 run.

Just An Artist

We have a runner in each division of the 3m amateur rider hurdle and first up is Suspected at 16.40; he stayed on well at the end of 2m 4f at Newcastle last time and looks like he might prefer going right handed so he can hopefully run with credit – Kit rides and 11 run.

Suspected

Jesika takes the ride on Maillot Blanc in the 2nd division at 17.12, he ran really well at Kelso last time to be a close 3rd.  That form looks pretty good now and we know he likes Perth and won’t mind the ground so he ought to play a part as well.

Maillot Blanc

That’s it for day one, at Kelso yesterday Ozzy Cosmo ran like it was the end of a long old season, Lester Mail on the other hand ran a race full of promise to be a staying on fourth.