Sophie Fooks

A double at Uttoxeter on Sunday completed an excellent weekend for our team. This comes after a quiet spell when a number of our horses were not quite 100% and giving the odd cough. My thanks to our excellent vet Graham Fowke from Cotts Equine Vets who advised treating them with antibiotics and giving them […]

We enjoyed a treble at Fontwell on Thursday in seriously testing conditions. All three winners were well ridden by our promising conditional jockey Ben Godfrey who is starting to make a name for himself this season. He has been with us for almost 18 months and reached a notable milestone on Thursday when his claim

BELLE DE MANECH gained her first success over hurdles with an impressive run from the front at Wincanton on Boxing Day. It was a significant victory in the career of her jockey Rex Dingle who has now ridden 75 winners and so loses his 3 lbs claim. The pleasing performance of BELLE DE MANECH was

It was good to see FANFARON DINO gain his first success in a novice handicap hurdle run in testing conditions that he relished at Uttoxeter on Friday. As a half brother to the Champion Hurdler EPATANTE he obviously has a brilliant pedigree but he is 17 hands, was quite weak when when he came into

Precious made a perfect start to her racing career with a fluent success in the mares’ bumper at Plumpton on Monday in the colours of Phillip Cartwright. It was a lovely performance by a youngster I rate highly. She is a big, solid unit, a proper powerhouse with loads of bone and already looks like

LE COEUR NET doubled his score for the season with his second success inside a fortnight at Ffos Las on Sunday. He looked the one to beat after the overnight favourite Equus Dancer was withdrawn and though he had to work hard once on the run-in he was always holding the challenge of the runner-up

Le Coeur Net opened his season with his fourth success over fences with a win at Plumpton on Monday off a handicap mark of 115. A race that looked competitive on paper rather fell apart with two horses withdrawn on the day and the favourite unfortunately suffering a serious injury at half-way. Ben Godfrey had

An early morning schooling session on Tuesday paid off for AVOIR DE SOINS (French for ‘have care’) who gained his first success a few hours later at Lingfield in the 2m 4f attheraces.com Handicap Chase. A whole host of issues have prevented him putting his best foot forward and I didn’t really know what to

Kilconny Bridge looked as good as ever as she won her fifth race from six starts at Chepstow on Monday in the colours of the Potwell Racing syndicate. She was a bit too enthusiastic at times last season so I was over the moon to see her readily settle behind two keen front runners at

World of Dreams made the perfect start to his career with an impressive success in what looked a decent bumper at Fontwell on Friday. He was our ninth recent winner in a terrific spell for the yard. The plan was to run two in the race but I had to withdraw Precious on the day