James Ewart Yard Blog

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...

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...

James Ewart Racing Open Day On Sunday 1 st September over 130 owners and supporters gathered at the yard for the 14 th   Open Day. It was warm and sunny with only the odd shower which was an amazing break in an otherwise well-established wet and windy weather pattern. Chairs were arranged for viewing the parade and we enjoyed basking in the...

Lord Wishes continued the good form of our older horses when he ran out the easy winner of the 2 mile 5 furlong Handicap Chase at Cartmel . Many of our staff are on their well- deserved holidays at the moment and after last summer’s blazing June, we are back to a normal Scottish summer.   However, we are forecast a heatwave over the...