- Monday, 11 May 2015 07:19
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
This afternoon there are five meetings taking place with flat cards from Doncaster, Musselburgh, Wolverhampton and Windsor and a jumps fixture from Towcester. The stable has three runners at Towcester; Susie Sheep, Lady Of Longstone and The Bank Manager. Susie Sheep won an English point-to-point so this 2m5f trip should suit her well, while Lady Of Longstone has some fair placed form and with amateur jockey David Noonan taking 7lbs off her back she should run a big race - the Post make her a 9/2 chance. Our other runner has a great name - The Bank Manager is a full-brother to The Liquidator and he makes his debut for the stable this evening. We should know a lot more about him after tonight.
- Saturday, 09 May 2015 11:35
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
There are just two meetings taking place this afternoon and they are both jumping fixtures with action from Ludlow and Plumpton. The stable runs My Brother Sylvest in the 2m handicap chase at Ludlow and he will be partnered by Tom Scudamore. Although he carries top weight of 11-12, he finished runner-up at Kempton on Monday and is due another hike in the weights for that. This is a competitive race, as you would expect considering there is almost £13,000 on offer to the winner. Meanwhile Conor O'Farrell travels to Plumpton for the mount aboard Pilgrim's Bay. Pilgrim's Bay was a naughty boy last time at Ffos Las, looking the most likely winner of his bumper until twice downing tools in the straight and finishing a close third. Hopefully Conor will convince him to behave today - he clearly has plenty of ability, let's hope that he uses it!
- Saturday, 09 May 2015 07:27
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
There are seven meetings taking place this afternoon with four flat cards from Lingfield, Ascot, Nottingham and Thirsk as well as jumps fixtures from Hexham and Warwick and of course a quality mixed card from Haydock. It is Swinton Hurdle day at Haydock and the stable runs Serienschock, Alternatif, Rathealy and Ainsi Fideles at the meeting, while Willem and It'll Be Grand go at Warwick. I must admit that I thought Alternatif (pictured above) would go well in the Long Distance handicap hurdle, although my enthusiasm was slightly tempered when the Racing Post correspondent plumped for our other runner Serienschock. They say you should never change your mind so I will stick to my guns although I would be pleased if either of ours were successful.
- Friday, 08 May 2015 07:41
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
It is a busy day with six meetings taking place this afternoon with flat action from Chester, Lingfield, Ascot, Ripon and Nottingham with a supporting jumps card from Market Rasen. The stable has one runner this afternoon, a gelding with a great name 'Prince Of Poets'. He was a winner of an all-weather bumper at Lingfield on his only previous start and he makes his debut for Pond House today. He has to concede a penalty to the remainder of the field and it could take a decent performance to win this with the powerful Hobbs and Henderson teams both fielding unraced types.
- Thursday, 07 May 2015 07:41
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
Following the success of Weather Babe at Exeter on Wednesday night, the stable maintained it's good form with the success of Mozo in the bumper at Uttoxeter last night. Indeed, our daughter of Milan was a ready winner on her racecourse debut under Tom Scudamore, coming home five lengths clear of the remainder. She can only improve for the experience and appears to have a bright future.
- Wednesday, 06 May 2015 07:41
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
The stable enjoyed a nice winner at Exeter last night (our first domestic winner of the new season) when Weather Babe ran out a ready winner of the 3m handicap hurdle under Conor O'Farrell. Our mare seemed to win with a bit in hand, while Houston Dynimo was not discredited back over the smaller obstacles in fourth. The winner is a homebred mare so it was a double celebration for owner Wayne Clifford and breeder Sarah...well done to them! It is not often the yard has a 12/1 winner and I hope that a few readers of this column were on after a positive mention yesterday.
- Tuesday, 05 May 2015 07:45
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
There are five meetings taking place this afternoon with flat cards from Brighton and Catterick and jumps action from Fakenham, Sedgefield and Exeter. The stable has two runners at Exeter; Weather Babe and Houston Dynimo (pictured above) in the 7.20pm race - both have won on fast ground so the prevailing conditions should suit, although how fast it is going to be is questionable looking at the amount of rain coming down this morning. Not only that, it was so misty when I came past the course en route to the yard this morning that you could barely see more than 25 yards in front of you. If I had to have a bet tonight I would probably plump for Weather Babe, owned by stable sponsor Wayne Clifford - you never know, I may get a discount on my tyres!
