Calling…
The Breeze Up sales at Goffs. Doncaster Racecourse. Breeze today, sell tomorrow…
A flying machine or three in the catalogue. But also several who will struggle to raise a gallop in the months ahead. That is the way of it. Sort the wheat from the chaff…
And add a massive dollop of a commodity called luck…
There are some who will be seduced by those that blitz the clock. Whilst others will major on conformation and pedigree. Nervous vendors at the recent Craven Sale in Newmarket, and there will be more of the same tomorrow when the gavel is raised to start proceedings…
Where there is disruption, there might be opportunity. Perhaps…
Yorkshire traits – “direct, sometimes bloody minded, stubborn, straightforward…”
A Breezer with similar characteristics would not be a bad one to go to war with at the races in the months ahead. Royal Ascot and Glorious dreams…
Very good to have Josh Stacey and the Racing TV cameras on the place yesterday. Filming an Epsom feature. To include us, Jim Boyle and his Guineas dream, the Derby preparations – and that pub where the winner’s name appears on the blackboard overnight – or not….??
The Derby looming over the horizon. Remarkably. Spring weeks are raging by…
We have had fewer runners than normal, mainly through design. We could not legislate for bugs and critters and broken widgets, and a couple of other potential runners have been blighted by abandonments and postponements at every turn. And we have now bumped into an Epsom target next Tuesday that has been moved up country. Quite a long way up country – and “up country” is massively less convenient than “on the doorstep….”
Perfect storms…
And having spent a King’s Ransom filling up the car yesterday, we might have to mark time on those longer journeys for a while unless categorically the right race to target. Costs rising – and closer to home makes sense until / when / if we get a bit of stability on fuel prices…
Long, long season ahead. Straight bat. Don’t get rattled when plans are thrown awry by matters beyond our control. Yorkshire grit. Geoffrey Boycott. Nil point in playing in the “corridor of uncertainty…”
Right, where’s that catalogue ? Where is that Royal Ascot horse? He or she is in there…
