Richard’s Blog

All at Adlestrop Stables were truly delighted to see Smile Back win so well at Carlisle in the mares bumper on Sunday.  Tech That also put up a very pleasing performance in the novices hurdle [...]

Neeps And Tatties made a splendid debut in the bumper at Hereford on Wednesday.  Keen early on, she gradually settled and was prominent until the straight before staying on to be fourth beaten [...]

Sun Tracker (pictured) runs in the 6.30pm this evening at Southwell in the one mile six furlongs handicap with Liam Keniry once again onboard.  Liam recommended we step him up in trip and ride [...]

Elfride was travelling very strongly into the straight at Ludlow on Wednesday after which she failed to pick up and finished fourth.  We subsequently found that she had broken a blood vessel [...]

Elfride has been declared in the 12.28pm at Ludlow tomorrow.  We were pleased with her previous run at Chepstow following a break and hopefully she will have come on for that race.  Harry Atkins [...]

Having looked for some good, safe ground for Lizzie Rey – the ground was softer than she would have liked at Ludlow yesterday.  Finn Lambert reported she made a bit of a gurgle so we will now put [...]

We were very pleased with Tech That’s run at Ffos Las on Wednesday.  Making his debut for us in the bumper, he took quite a hold in behind the leaders with Finn Lambert onboard but despite this [...]

A very snowy morning in Adlestrop and thanks to the dedication and hard work of our excellent team we have managed to give the string plenty of exercise despite the conditions. Swift Jet did not [...]

Sun Tracker (pictured) is declared in the 8pm at Wolverhampton this evening.  We were pleased with his comeback run in mid October and hopefully he will come on for that race and appreciate the [...]

We have made some more entries for next week on courses that might be able to provide some safe ground.  Much has been said about the lack of rain and therefore the lack of runners in the last [...]