James Ewart Yard Blog

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...

We have had a good start to the new National Hunt season with three winners from six runners - all at Hexham .   We were delighted that Brian Hughes’s first ride back for the yard after his horrible fall in April was a winning one! Brian too has had a flying start and won the championship title of Stobart Northern Jump Jockey of...

Most of the horses are now enjoying their holidays out at grass and we will just have a few kept in training through the summer where there are still good prizes on offer. It Has To Be checking on the horses across the river at Craig Honourary Gift enjoying the Spring grass What did you say?   Feetronie de Kervi down in The Borders...

We are starting to wind down now and most of the horses, as well as staff, will be looking forward to a summer break. On Grand National Day – Saturday 6 th April – we were at Newcastle with five runners where the going was good to soft. In the 2 mile 4 furlong Handicap Hurdle Bingo D’Olivate was ridden by Brian Hughes...