Richard’s Blog

Willow Edge (pictured) ran a pleasing debut at Stratford yesterday in the two miles mares maiden hurdle.  Although a bit of a live wire she behaved herself in the preliminaries, jumped and [...]

We have two runners at Stratford tomorrow with Willow Edge (pictured) in the two mile mares maiden hurdle and The Last Drop in the three and a quarter mile handicap hurdle.  Both are competitive [...]

Manalishi was an excellent second in the maiden hurdle at Market Rasen on Tuesday.  On the whole he jumped and travelled well behind the leaders before staying on nicely after the last to confirm [...]

Two runners tomorrow with Manalishi (pictured) in the 2.45pm at Market Rasen and Dora Vita in the 6pm at Lingfield. Manalishi has shown promise on both his runs, including a third to Storming [...]

Apart from a few grazes, Bluenose Belle appears fine this morning after her fall at Taunton yesterday.  It was uncharacteristic of her but she may well have been put off by a swinging hurdle. [...]

Bluenose Belle (pictured) is declared at Taunton on Thursday in the two miles mares handicap hurdle run at 3.40pm.  She won two hurdle races for us last year and prefers better ground so [...]

We have declared Baron Wagstaff (pictured) in the 4.20pm at Bath on Sunday – the mile and a quarter restricted novice.  There are eight runners with of couple of the opposition having very useful [...]

Little Big Kev didn’t travel or jump with his normal fluency at Southwell on Tuesday and we will do a few tests to see if we can find out why this would be.  He has had wind surgery in the past [...]

Neeps And Tatties (pictured) ran a very pleasing second at Ffos Las last Monday, whilst Dora Vita stayed on well in the final furlong to finish fourth at Wolverhampton the same day.  Elfride [...]

Bluenose Belle encountered softer ground than she would like at Huntingdon on Tuesday finishing fifth, beaten just over ten lengths by the winner.  The ground rode on the rather dead side and [...]