April 2024

FORTUNA LIGNA justified the long journey from Potwell to Scotland with a pleasing success in a £15,000 long distance handicap hurdle at Perth on Thursday in the colours of Owners For Owners. While she has been running consistently through the winter it’s fair to say she has left it quite late to record her first […]

The decisive success of Dreaming Blue at Fontwell on Friday took our score to a new personal best for the season of 41 winners. It was also a red letter day for his jockey Ben Godfrey who has now ridden out his claim. Ben works very hard, is good in the yard and loyal to

SOMESPRING SPECIAL took our score for the season to 40 with her second victory on Thursday. A ready winner of a conditional jockeys’ chase at Plumpton on Sunday she escaped a penalty for a much more valuable mares’ Chase five days later at Cheltenham and duly scored another success in the colours of the Yeo

We have lost a great friend and supporter with the sad death of Antonia Cole at the age of 90, just shy of her 91st birthday. Charming and intelligent she quickly became part of the family when we first rented her yard next to her home at Potwell. From day one Antonia took a great

SOMESPRING SPECIAL bounced back to form with a stylish success under top weight in a two and a half mile conditional jockeys’ handicap Chase at Plumpton on Sunday in the colours of the Yeo Racing Partnership. After two disappointing runs over fences when she seemed to get bogged down in the mud she must have

We didn’t quite manage to win the valuable Class 1 Premier Handicap Chase at Aintree on Saturday but it wasn’t for the lack of trying. Our three runners all finished in the money with veteran Sam Brown, who won the same race two years ago, staging a stirring late run that came within a length