James Ewart Yard Blog

We have had a very welcome return to form with our recent runners and two winners in the last week.   Brayhill  lived up to his point-to- point form to win his first race over hurdles at Carlisle on the 21st March and we are delighted to welcome Jimmy Fyffe as an owner who has bought a share in the horse.   Tortuga Bay was...

As many of your will be aware the horses have not been running up to expectations lately and we are working  very hard to sort this out and are carrying out a full yard MOT;  so hopefully,  we will soon see some better results. Horses For Sale We still have shares available in the following horses all of whom have had a break...

We have had plenty of runners over the last three weeks but for a variety of reasons have not enjoyed the rub of the green!  Also there is a question mark over the mineral levels in the yard at the moment and we are working very hard to resolve this.   This blog covers the earlier runners when the weather was still fairly wintry. ...

The weather has taken its seasonal toll over the last couple of weeks due either to waterlogging or snow and frost.  So we had no runners until the 22nd January. All the team have been braving the elements in some truly horrendous weather - 11, snow, sleet, ice and rain -  it’s all been thrown at us but everyone pulls together putting horses...

It is not easy looking after fit racehorses in these extremely icy conditions and yet again we are so grateful to our hard working and dedicated team who keep going during challenging times.  In order to make the sand gallop workable the trainer has to rise at 4.00 a.m. to rotovate  for three hours and Ian Earsman also comes in really early to...