“SUNDAY 10th MAY. PLEASE BRING A BOTTLE.”
The time of year. When local events are flagged up on rural lanes and beside village greens. Love the “bring a bottle” bit….
Kempton. Yesterday. Work morning. Early. Busy. Horseboxes aplenty. We were the “early birds” who got out on the track ahead of the crowd. The crowd being made up of jockeys and Johnson-Houghtons and Hannons and Pipes and more….
Sophie, Jack Dace and Charlie Bishop doing the steering on our’s…
Charlie there for Eve. Early. And so grabbed and jocked up on ALICE ROCKS (Kameko 2-yr-old filly) to accompany the unnamed St Mark’s Basilica filly (Jack Dace up). No more than a swinging canter, but two cool young horses who took it in their stride…
MAX MAYHEM (Jack) and ALCARAZ (Sophie) doing strong solo gallops. All good – and both with upcoming options…
No runners today. Annoyingly…
Gordon Grey (Ascot) and Tex (Leicester) tomorrow…
Chester’s May meeting. Aidan firing some potent bullets, and some of them backed as if defeat were out of the question. And so it proved. A yard filled with Derby contenders. A yard that dominates the big race betting…
The Chester Cup today. Two and a quarter miles around this dizzying Roman amphitheatre. O’Brien heading the betting. Joseph this time. Three strong contenders…
And talking of “Roman”, fabulous to see our old friend from the Bahrain barn, Roman Dragon, winning again on the Roodeye yesterday. “Horses for courses”. He is pounds better around Chester. Dude of a horse…
“Riders up….”
First Lot pulling out. Tallulah riding second Lot. Her first time riding out in our string having spent the winter commuting to Nick Alexander’s yard from Edinburgh…
