Time of year…
In many respects. Green shoots, brighter dawns, hope springs…
Classic clues aplenty at this time of year. Or not ?! Some years, there is clarity and very obvious favourites. This time, the waters and the ante post markets feel muddy and murky…
A 50/1 winner of the Nell Gwynn yesterday. A few winter dreams in tatters and bubbles going pop. The Coolmore battalions spluttering as opposed to charging – but long odds on that they will find a superstar or seven amongst the regally bred..
The Craven today. Hidden Force or Hawk Mountain ? Or more left field stuff…??
Our Epsom neighbour and great mate Jim Boyle living the Guineas dream with Into The Sky. Headed straight to Newmarket. As others falter by the day, Epsom hopes soar…
Grey and gloomy and bleak out there right now. Feels and looks like February. The weather has been in and out at best, and a few yet to find their summer coats. Who can blame them ? Royal Ascot sheen can wait for brighter days…
An exciting bunch of horses to go to war with. A lovely group of 2-year-olds, but madly precocious is not what they are going to be. Horses that will hopefully be on the place for years – and not “here today, gone tomorrow” pocket rockets. Long games need to be played…
There is no rush. Only April. Time and patience is the way. The only way…
Constitution Hill will not be at Newbury on Saturday. Sadly. The ground deemed too fast. Where do they go now ? Keep tipping away – or spring grass in quiet paddocks…..?
Day 2 of the Craven Sales yesterday. Trepidation – again. It will be fascinating to see how the upcoming breeze up sales elsewhere pan out given the reality check of this week. And with pinhookers running for cover and scrabbling to get their horses away and sold, they are unlikely to be so brave this autumn at the Yearling sales….
Corrections come in all markets. Where there is disruption there is opportunity…
