To the extremely positive response to our new partnership with Charles Tyrwhitt….
Aston Martin have kindly agreed to give us all one of their very smart cars…
Fortnum and Mason have agreed to sponsor our Royal Ascot and Goodwood picnics…
And Emirates have agreed to fly us and our owners globally in First Class…
Easy game…
Or….??
Guess what ?? It is raining again. “Farming Today” on Radio 4 just now. Farmers looking out of their tractors at paddy fields. Which would be great if they were growing rice, but not so good for our domestic crops. Great swathes of farmland under water. Water that will not disappear when it does stop raining. Water that will be there for weeks…
Slow motion finishes the order of the day as National Hunt horses plough through close to unraceable conditions. Several are cannily keeping their powder dry and their horses fresh for the spring Festivals…
Jonbon tomorrow to his beloved Ascot. 1/2 to beat Pic D’Orhy, Edwardstone and three “rags”. Backer or layer at long odds on ?? The latter for me. Although if he drifts to around 4/5….
A Grade 1 that comes too close in the calendar to Cheltenham for many, and which invariably has a small field. But Grade 1’s are not to be sniffed at…
Busy morning on the Yard. Several folk coming to see their horses on the gallops. And Candida putting together a “Girl’s Syndicate”, and plenty headed this way to meet their new horse. A fridge filled to the brim. What could possibly go wrong….??
Pic D’Orhy last year…
