Posts Tagged ‘Perth’
Let them eat…..
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…
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,…
Read MoreBingo! (& stable update)
Sunday April 3rd – I was delighted when Daasij gave us our 3rd winner of the week at Newcastle on Friday, it appears that stepping up to 3 miles did the trick and hopefully he can progress from here. All three winners are looked after by Emma Dick who having now completed the hat-trick will…
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Wednesday 23rd March – Plenty happening again this morning with “Alf,” Minimo and Four Fiddlers all working nicely at Lucinda’s all-weahter, “Alf” showed particular improvement on his earlier visit there which is just as well. Back here Daasij, Amulree and Papamoa worked on our all-weather and the point-to-pointers who are likely to be running on…
Read MoreMarch 9th – The Wise Man Speaks
Daasij was 5th at Catterick today, I expected him to run better than that, he returned with a nasty gash to his near fore – this may be an explanation. We run three tomorrow at Carlisle where the ground will be on the soft side; Amulree goes in the 3.15, 6 run, Native Coll runs in…
Read MoreThursday March 3rd – Harold’s Blog!
Hello, I’m Harry, not sure why I have been chosen but “Trainer” was in today and was moaning that he had no volunteers as guest bloggers on his website…well, where do I start? I have had the dubious privilege/unpleasant task of cutting his hair for the last 20 years, I didn’t know anything about racing back…
Read MoreTue March 2nd – Perth…
Another fine day, worked 7 on the grass (Saturday’s potential runners and those planned to go away to work on Friday), all went nicely but Northern Flame particularly caught the eye, he is a horse I have always thought the world of and he is scheduled to make his handicap debut on Saturday, I am…
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