James Ewart Yard Blog

Thankfully the yard appears to be returning to normal and most of the horses are running well.   During the first week of 2020 we had 13 runners and another winner and so this was a busy time. On New Year’s Day we ran three horses at Musselburgh and one at Catterick . At Musselburgh , Beat Box ridden by Danny McMenamin had his...

We have had a frustrating spell with the horses not running up to form during November and the beginning of December.   This was due to events outwith our control with the cause being identified as a bad batch of feed and  this has resulted in our making a lot of positive alterations swiftly. However, we are now getting back on track and the...

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...

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...