James Ewart Yard Blog

July has been a good month so far for us with two winners and a second from four runners.  It was great to have two wins at Perth with For Three on1st July and Juge Et Parti on 11th July winning on his first start for the yard after we purchased him at Doncaster Bloodstock Sales in May. For Three and Danny McMenamin coming...

The highlight of June was Empire’s win at Aintree to give owners Steve and Jessica Murrills a memorable evening at this famous course.    It is so encouraging that crowds are starting to come back to the racecourses and creating a much better atmosphere so do let’s hope there are no further setbacks despite the prevalence of the Delta variant.   Empire de Maulde...

There have been various changes in the yard over the last couple of weeks for both horses and staff. We bought two very nice horses at the Doncaster Bloodstock Sales this week, Juge et Partie and Hold Onto the Line and details of these will appear on the website shortly. Rachael McDonald has announced her retirement as a jockey but hopefully she may...

Some of the horses are now turned out here at the yard for their summer holidays.   This arrangement worked very well last year and we are on hand to attend to any problems that might arise. We have had four runners since the new season started, the horses are running well and Lake Takapuna ran a great race to be denied by just...

We are currently busy preparing our better ground horses for their return and looking forward to a busy summer campaign.  With the easing of restrictions we keep our fingers crossed that Covid infections continue to fall and that crowds will be able to return to the racecourse.  Racing through the winter has been a strange experience and we all long to hear the...