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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

Tim Frost’s relentless pursuit of equine excellence was deservedly honoured at the TBA’s annual NH Breeders’ Awards dinner on Monday night in Doncaster. The choice of Tims’s homebred ten year old Sam Brown for the Shade Oak Stud trophy for leading chaser in 2021-2022 was warmly received. No wonder. He has progressed each season and

FOUNTAINS CHIEF gained our first success of the new season with a dominant triumph ridden by Rex Dingle in a Class 4 maiden hurdle over two and three quarter miles at Fontwell on Wednesday evening. Keen throughout, he led from start to finish in the colours of the Fountains Partnership, was notably strong at the

LILITH gained the biggest success of her career with a decisive victory in the £30,000 Close Brothers Irish EBF Mares’ Handicap Chase over an extended two and a half miles at Punchestown on Thursday evening. And I was pleased that  some of the Decimus VI Syndicate, owners of Lilith, could be there yesterday to celebrate

MIDNIGHT CALLISTO gained her second success of the campaign with a fluent victory from the front in the Class 4 Happy 90th Birthday John Barnett Mares’ Handicap Hurdle at Stratford on Sunday in the colours of our long time supporter Gill Langford. Rex Dingle sensibly kept things simple as he took her into the lead