Richard’s Blog

A beautiful morning on the gallops today once the mist lifted, with lots of visitors to watch the horses going through their paces.  Short on opportunities for those that are fit and ready to run [...]

It was great to welcome Hilary Lewis and Clare Fogarty on Saturday morning as part of their Racing Welfare Charity Walk.  They walked up ten Gloucestershire trainers gallops during the day to [...]

Thank you to everyone at Sandown who made the Lycetts Team Champions Award presentation such a special day on Wednesday.  It was wonderful to get a vast majority of the team to the course to [...]

Very pleased with Lady Of Authority’s run at Fontwell yesterday on ground that would not have suited her, where she finished fourth in the handicap hurdle after she came to challenge in the [...]

A huge thank you to everyone who made yesterday’s first ever National Racehorse Week open day at Adlestrop Stables such a success. As our great friend and supporter John Inverdale said at the end [...]

We have made entries for next week including Ocho Grande and Lady Of Authority.  Suitable opportunities are scarce at the moment but hopefully both will get into their respective races. We are [...]

Flying Dragon has been entered at Bath on Saturday, however the ground is firm at present but hopefully some rain is on the way towards the end of the week.  We have a few ready to run in the [...]

It was great to do some faster work with some of the string this morning as we prepare for runners at the end of next week.  All bar a few horses are back now from their holidays and looking [...]

Everyone at Adlestrop Stables are delighted that the team are the recipients of this year’s Lycetts Team Champions Award.  Yesterday, after much devious plotting by the boss, Charlotte Alexander [...]

Organdi found the ground a little bit on the easy side for her at Bangor yesterday and also the track was a bit sharp for her.  She jumped and travelled well for much of the race but the more [...]