Richard's Blog

With the warm weather and stiff competition, we have given Market Rasen a miss with Iron Horse and hopefully he will take up one of his options next week.  Apparently there is a bit of rain on [...]

Worked a few of our flat horses this morning, including Dandy Lass whose part owner, Vince O’Brien – came to see her go through her paces. She is also part owned by Barnsy and Dave [...]

Work morning today and all went well as we prep horses for some runners next week, including Iron Horse and Bella’s Vision. Looking forward to the flat string coming together as well, now [...]

An enjoyable work morning on Saturday with visitors including Brian Duckett, Vince O’Brien and John Rosbotham.  We have made entry for the weekend and hopefully we will have a bit of rain [...]

We schooled some horses this morning with jockey Tom Bellamy in to ride out.  Quiet on the runners front until next weekend but hopefully we will have a few for the following week. It’s [...]

A good work morning with the usual collection of stop watches and heart monitors.  It’s not only Ballydoyle that have these facilities! Owner Rob Dalziel popped in on the way to Warwick [...]

As Iron Horse didn’t get a run at Southwell due to his ballot mark, we have no runners this week but have quite a few pencilled in for a couple of weeks time.  Hoping the ground conditions [...]

Master Vintage failed to settle early on in his race at Chepstow on Saturday and jumped to the right.  He was found to have lost a shoe afterwards and this may have been a reason for this. He was [...]

Master Vintage is declared in the 2.50pm at Chepstow tomorrow.  We are stepping him up in trip and hopefully this will suit him.  The ground will be on the soft side but he has run well in [...]

Off to Taunton today to saddle Muthabir in the 3.10pm.  There has been some rain which will ease the ground but hopefully not too much.  The favourite looks hard to oppose but all being well [...]