Richard's Blog

A cold but sunny work morning as we prepare for various runners over the next few days.  Mrs Barnes is declared in the mares maiden hurdle at Huntingdon tomorrow.  She showed promise on her [...]

Present From Dubai jumped very well on his chasing debut at Leicester yesterday.  Having had a few niggles, hopefully he will come on for the run fitness wise and now the ground has dried up we [...]

Beautiful People jumped well on the whole but was outpaced on her chasing debut at Warwick on Friday.  However hopefully the experience will have done her good and we look forward to running her [...]

Organdi jumped the first nine fences with great aplomb on her chasing debut at Ludlow yesterday.  However getting too close to the first down the back, she came down and unfortunately has [...]

Ocho Grande and Muthabir certainly didn’t like either Southwell surface but I am sure will return to form once on a more suitable one and will hopefully lose a few pounds from the handicapper at [...]

Just setting off to Southwell to saddle Ocho Grande in the 5.45pm.   He showed promise on his debut for us at Kempton and hopefully if acting round this track, he should give the Race Against [...]

Both Lady Of Authority (pictured) and Mrs Barnes ran well to finish fifth in their respective races. Lady doesn’t help herself by not breaking from the stalls too quickly and therefore was [...]

Lady Of Authority runs tomorrow at Kempton in the 4.55pm, a mile and a half Classified Stakes.  Once again Georgie Dobie rides her and hopefully she will be competitive in such a contest.  There [...]

It was good to get three runners out and about at Kempton yesterday at the all-weather ‘jumpers bumpers’ card. Both Robin Des Smoke and Minella Whisper ran well for owner Lizzie Prowting in their [...]

Three runners at Kempton tomorrow with the BHA putting on an all-weather ‘jumpers bumpers’ card.  Robin Des Smoke runs in the mares race at 1.05pm.  It is inevitably a hot contest with so many [...]