STOP PRESS!   Ettila de Sivola returned to winning ways at Newcastle today in the bet365.com Novice Handicap Chase providing Brian Hughes with the third leg of a four timer at the track.  Bingo d'Olivate also came a good second in the bet365.com Handicap Hurdle.   Reports will be included in the next blog. Ettila de Sivola After a promising start to the season, during...

We have been lucky to avoid the extreme flooded conditions suffered across the Midlands and north of England with Cheltenham losing the first day of their November meeting . The Bet Victor Gold Cup was saved with racing resuming on Saturday but the fields for most of the races were much reduced. Some of our horses have not relished the conditions further north...

The horses have made a very encouraging start to the season and it was good to get another winner on the board with Bering Upsun at Kelso.   Multipede made an excellent start on his first time over fences at the same meeting, Bullion ran well for a long while at Carlisle and Aristo du Plessis ran a cracker at Wetherby. The yard currently...

We are now starting to have our first runners after the summer break and this is the result of many weeks of hard work by everyone.   First of all the slow exercise to start the fittening process, progressing on to cantering and gradually building this up so that in that in the last few weeks we have been able to do some vital...

It will be no surprise to hear from James that after the exceptionally wet weather in August and September, the going on the grass gallops is heavy and not what you would expect at this time of year.   However, it does mean that the horses are further on than normal as they are having to work harder and this is improving their fitness...