Sophie Fooks

The long journey from Potwell to Carlisle on Sunday was rewarded with an impressive success by SOJOURN and a fine run into third place by SAM BROWN in the Listed Intermediate Chase. There was no chance of a lie-in after all the excitement at Ascot yesterday, as Joss, Rex, Katherine, Sarah and I  set off […]

We had so much to celebrate on Saturday after a treble at Ascot from our only three runners of the day. SULLY D’OC AA set the ball rolling in the £16,400 novice handicap Chase, KID COMMANDO then doubled our score in the Listed handicap hurdle before the ageless marvel REGAL ENCORE completed the best afternoon

MARILYN MONROE extended the sparkling form of our team with the narrowest possible victory in her first handicap hurdle at Taunton on Wednesday. A half sister to Regal Encore and The Organist, she won an Irish point-to-point before joining us and was then successful in a bumper at Fontwell during her first campaign in this

Acey Milan made a perfect debut over fences with a pleasing success in a limited novice handicap Chase at Aintree on Sunday off a mark of 130. He has always been a talented horse, finished 4th in the Champion bumper after a prolific season and has now won five times from fifteen starts. He was

The unchallenged victory of Ucanaver in the bumper at Fontwell on Wednesday came as a pleasing endorsement of our decision to snap her up for £35,000 at the Cheltenham sales in the spring. A nice, quality filly, she first came to my attention when she ran so well in finishing an excellent second to our

The new season kicks off for us at Fontwell with three runners tomorrow. It’s great to finally be back racing after such a long break. I’m reluctant to take chances on watered quick ground, so I’m delighted to see the rain, and to be able to run our horses on lovely safe ground. KAYF SERA