- Thursday, 01 September 2011 07:48
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
Unfortunately Vertige Dore fell at the ninth fence in the novices' chase at Hereford yesterday afternoon. It was one of those unlucky looking falls - he jumped the fence well enough but just crumpled on landing. He had jumped and travelled well enough up until that point to suggest that he would have been involved in the finish and hopefully compensation awaits before too long.
We have two runners at Newton Abbot this afternoon, Bathwick Scanno (Tom Scudamore) in the juvenile hurdle at 1.50pm and Tigger in the handicap hurdle at 4.00pm - he will be ridden by young Frank Hayes who is looking for his first winner over jumps.
- Wednesday, 31 August 2011 06:58
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
Prize money for today's five meetings (four flat and one jumps card) totals just £114,000 and that really doesn't seem like much to me. I wonder how much the greedy bookies will take (and make) across those cards? It would be interesting to know, although it is just one of those things that we are never going to find out about...it is a little bit like MP's expenses (and I'm not talking about Martin Pipe!).
- Tuesday, 30 August 2011 07:24
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
American Art received a typically cool and confident ride from Conor O'Farrell to win the selling hurdle at Huntingdon yesterday afternoon. The six year old certainly seems to have found his form with a vengeance now he has been eased in grade - he looks to be a class above these rivals, although he may still be a few pounds too high to be competitive in handicaps. The second, The Foxs Decree could be another to follow in similar grade next time.
- Monday, 29 August 2011 07:33
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
A group of us have just returned from the north of France. We were staying in Deauville and I have to say that it is a beautiful place, although you would probably have to win the lottery to afford to live there - I think that it is the most expensive place that I have ever visited in the world! One thing that struck me was how clean the place was - the binmen would come around everyday...where I live, we're lucky if the binmen come once a fortnight! I couldn't even afford to get drunk - beer was €9 a pint in one bar, while langoustines were €24 per kilo - on my return, I couldn't help but notice that my local Morrisons were knocking them out at £10 per kilo...I sound like I am doing one of those price check adverts. By the way, at the local market I noticed that jumpers were €150 each...I rest my case!
- Sunday, 28 August 2011 00:00
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
For those of you who have been reading my blog over the last few days you will have seen a few pictures I have been taking on Pond House gallops. Well today, rather than ramble on with my usual stories I have just decided to put a few of my photos of the horses on the gallops for you all to have a look at! The majority of horses have been in from grass for a little while now and are doing some steady cantering in preparation to be ready for action when the season starts getting going properly in October. Make sure you click on the read more to see some of the horses in action!
- Saturday, 27 August 2011 07:12
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
I don't know if anybody saw yesterday's racing at Newmarket but it was quite remarkable that all six of jockey Jim Crowley's intended mounts were declared non-runners. There were plenty of non-runners throughout the day at both Newmarket and Brighton but it is quite unlucky to be expecting a full book of rides and end up with none! Racing was quite hid quite hard yesterday, with several fields depleted as there were 73 non runners across the six meetings, mostly due to the rain affected ground. Brighton was worst affected with 23 withdrawals. Jim Crowley's six non-runners made up hald of all the non-runners at Newmarket so that is bad luck!
- Friday, 26 August 2011 08:07
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
The flat jockey's championship seems to be warming up with six times former champion jockey Kieren Fallon breaking through the one hundred winner barrier for the season. He is currently one winner ahead of Nelson de Sousa, although he still trails current champion Paul Hanagan by eleven winners. Fallon certainly seems to have built up some momentum and I wouldn't be at all surprised to see him still challenging hard for the title come November when things will be decided.
