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FORWARD PLAN gained his deserved first success with a fluent victory in the long distance Chichester Foodbank Handicap Hurdle at Fontwell on Friday in the colours of The Steeplechasers syndicate. I was thinking of switching him straight to fences this season but felt there was unfinished business over hurdles and found an ideal race for […]

SAILING GRACE made the perfect start to her career with a narrow success at Newton Abbot on Saturday in the Happy 70th Birthday Ian Weaver Junior “National Hunt” Hurdle. It’s a welcome new series for unraced three year olds and I’ve had the one at Newton Abbot earmarked for Sailing Grace for a few weeks.

The stylish victory of PARIS DIXIE at Newton Abbot in the Trevor Leslie Scheu Memorial Novices’  long distance handicap hurdle on Monday completed an eventful 24 hours for our team. A day earlier we played host at Potwell Farm to a large gathering of friends and supporters on our annual Owners’ day. We paraded sixty

On Tuesday September 6th we held the third Anthony Honeyball Golf Day at Cricket St Thomas Golf Club. 24 players/6 teams took part in what turned out to be a very competitive event with our host pipped at the post in a very tight finish. Congratulations to Edmondo Paoloni who scored 40 stableford points on

EMZARA fulfilled the promise of her debut at Aintree last October with an impressive success in the At The Races App Form Study Mares’ Open National Hunt Flat Race at Fontwell on Sunday. It hasn’t been plain sailing as she suffered a stress fracture shortly afterward her run at Aintree and we also gave her

I am excited to report that we have had another brilliantly successful year of the 5-2-Follow competition with a super 98 entries which means we have raised £490 for the Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance. Well done to all of you who took part and as with all competitions there are winners to be announced…

Fountains Chief completed a hat-trick of victories inside a month under a double penalty in a three mile novice hurdle at Uttoxeter on Monday. He led throughout, jumping well apart from a mistake at the third last and kept on in a pleasing manner to beat Armchair Farmer by two lengths. The runner up was

CAPE VIDAL made the perfect start on his racecourse debut with an impressive victory from the front in the EV Towers Open National Hunt Flat Race at Ffos Las late on Saturday evening. An athletic, robust type he has had his share of issues over the past seven months but he has always looked an

FOUNTAIN’S CHIEF doubled his score for the month of May with a runaway success under a penalty in a novice hurdle over two and a half miles at Worcester on Friday evening. In the absence of the obvious danger Sporty Jim he started at the prohibitive odds of 1-33. I doubt if any of ours