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Tuesday May 3rd – April was a tremendous month for us and I am anxious to keep the ball rolling however the extraordinary weather continues so none of our 4 entries at Kelso tomorrow are running and our horses were also absent from the Lauderdale p2p on Sunday. We have entries this weekend at Aspatria…
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Tuesday April 26th – More glorious weather but close inspection of Perth racecourse last night revealed thoroughly watered ground with a thick carpet of grass, Donald, the head groundsman told me he had been able to cut the grass six times already this year whereas in a normal year he would struggle cut it momore…
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Monday April 25th –…sweets, one of the many highlights of Mrs A’s catering for the jockeys at the Fife Point-to-Point on Saturday. Unfortunately there weren’t many there as the recent dry spell has led to a dearth of runners in point-to-points up and down the country, ironically it rained steadily for most of the day…
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Friday April 22nd – Easter, the Fife Point-to-Point and Perth entries; glorious weather all week so fast ground means that what might have been a crazily busy day tomorrow should be a relaxed fun one with perhaps one or two runners at Balcormo where determined water has taken the sting out of most of the…
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Wednesday April 20th – more fine weather; Papamoa, Twelve Paces & Northern Flame went to Lucinda’s, Minimo & Commercial Express schooled over fences and Playing Footsie schooled over hurdles, the rest worked on the riverbank and all-weather. Watering continues at all the racetracks but the weather looks settled well into the weekend so care will…
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Another splendid day and 16 horses did 3 steady 7f canters on the riverbank gallop, it is nearly perfect now and hopefully we will do some fast work on it later in the week. A few others went hacking, we’re at the stage in the season when a lot of the horses really need turned…
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Monday April 18th – Solid sort of morning here, fantastic weather though dull now, 18 horses worked in the schools and on the all-weather, Forcefield & Commercial Express went for a long hack in the forestry. Had our bi-annual inspection from the BHA which passed reasonably smoothly, made lots of entries for the weekend &…
Read MorePeaceful day…
Sunday April 17th – Peaceful day on the yard, all the horses either on the walker or relaxing in the paddocks enjoying some spring grass. No runners at the point-to-point but Lucy has two rides at Wetherby, Perez in the 2.25 and Knock Three Times in the 4.40 so relaxing won’t really be the right…
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Saturday April 16th 2011 – With the reappearance of the mighty Frankel this afternoon at Newbury. Sadly I don’t have the mental capacity to follow flat racing very closely but I do follow the Group races and I think the whole racing world is hoping that Henry Cecil might have a superstar on his hands,…
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Thursday April 14th – where tomorrow we run Forcefield for the Earley & Macdonald partnership in the 5.05, Lucy rides, 14 run and the ground is on the easy side of good. This is a step up in class and a step up in distance, it is a competitive handicap befitting of the Scottish National meeting…
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