- Wednesday, 13 February 2013 08:01
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
This afternoon there are four meetings taking place - three on the all-weather at Kempton, Lingfield and Southwell and a jumps card at Musselburgh (subject to an ealy morning inspection). The amazing thing is that the ground at Musselburgh is officially good/firm! They must have missed all the rain and snow that seemed to blight the remainder of the country. We had runners in Scotland yesterday afternoon at Ayr and I thought that The Tracey Shuffle performed creditably to finish a close second in the novices' chase on his first start since taking a nasty fall in September. He did make a couple of errors down the far side on the final circuit, but other than that he jumped very well indeed and just bumped into a useful rival on the day. The winner Tap Night did score a shade comfortably but The Tracey Shuffle should have little problem winning more races judged by this showing.
- Tuesday, 12 February 2013 08:45
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
This afternoon there are three meetings taking place at Ayr, Lingfield and Southwell. The best news of the day (especially for our box driver!) is that Ayr gets the go-ahead and the stable has two runners up at the Scottish track. The Tracey Shuffle (pictured above, right), a 133 rated hurdler has his first start since capsizing on his chase debut in September - he has done plenty of schooling at home and retains all of his enthusiasm...it would be fantastic if he could win at his owners local track (epecially as I would love to see Sean do the 'Tracey Shuffle' again!). Hidden Discounts makes his racecourse debut in the bumper and hopefully he will be able to continue the stables' red-hot run of form in this sphere.
- Monday, 11 February 2013 08:17
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
It was another good weekend for the yard with David cleaning up in both divisions of the bumper at Exeter yesterday afternoon. Despite a number of defections it was still a good performance from Vieux Lion Rouge to defy a double penalty in good style - he is clearly an exciting prospect, while The Liquidator never looked to be in any danger as he won the closing race.
- Sunday, 10 February 2013 00:43
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
Today there are just two meetings, a local jumps card at Exeter plus an all weather flat card at Southwell. Exeter is subject to an 8am inspection however so please make sure you check before setting off if you are going racing. David has three runners at Exeter, including two promising bumper runners Vieux Lion Rouge and The Liquidator plus High Ville in the Listed novice hurdle which is sponsored by Bathwick Tyres. In fact, our yard sponsor Bathwick Tyres sponsor all seven races. They are great for our sport and put so much into horse racing so if you need any new tyres you know where to go! Our runner in the final race of the day is The Liquidator. I am not sure if anyone will remember but MCP used to train a horse with the same name. I think it was owned by Bob Wheatley of Baron Blakeney fame. We had a right touch at Newbury one day with him, happy days! Today's The Liquidator has made a promising start in two bumpers finishing second twice and the last time was at Cheltenham. We hope he can go one better this afternoon. Vieux Lion Rouge is another exciting four year old who we are hoping can make it three from three in bumpers in the first division. Tom Scu rides all of our runners at Exeter.
- Saturday, 09 February 2013 08:18
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
Broadway Buffalo
It was a good across the card double for the yard yesterday with Broadway Buffalo winning at Newcastle and Alderluck winning at Bangor. Mikey Ennis was on board Alderluck and made up for unseating him last time with a great waiting ride and it was the horses first win since joing Pond House. Broadway Buffalo bolted up at Newcastle with Tom Scu in the saddle. He has now won all three of his career starts and that was his debut over hurdles. It was probably a good novice hurdle and the commentator thought that the first four home in the race were pretty useful. Our five year olds jumping was little novicey to start with but got better as the race went on and he looks to have a very exciting future. If you were watching the TV yesterday you may have seen that he is owned by a group of rugby boys including Andyw Powell and Mark Cueto. They all play for Sale Sharks and indeed it was a great day all round as Sale beat Exeter Cheifs last night and Mark Cueto actually scored is 76th try for his team. This is a record for the most tries ever scored in the Premiership so it wa a great day all round, well done Mark!
- Friday, 08 February 2013 08:22
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
Considering it was David's 40th birthday yesterday, there can have been few more appropriate winners than Shotavodka at Taunton. Our seven year old ran a lot better than his finishing position would suggest on his seasonal reappearance and with that run under his belt and the drop back in trip suiting, he ran out a brave and impressive winner of the maiden hurdle under Tom Scudamore. Meanwhile Home Run was far from disgraced as his run of successes came to an end with a second behind Mr Mole in the novices' handicap hurdle - the winner is probably okay.
- Thursday, 07 February 2013 08:13
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
It looks like being a busy day for the stable this afternoon with five runners at our local track Taunton where the ground is going to ride very testing after the rain and snow that we have endured over the last few weeks. Shotavodka, Home Run, Qalinas, Standing Ovation and Garryleigh represent the yard today. The amazing Home Run (pictured above) goes for his sixth consecutive win having started from an initial rating of 89. Obviously he is going to find life much tougher against better opposition from a mark of 124 so we hope that he can continue to improve. There are three other meetings taking place this afternoon at Doncaster and Huntingdon over the sticks and on the all-weather flat at Wolverhampton.
