Sophie Fooks

Dance and Glance delivered a memorable early Christmas present for me on Friday by providing my 500th winner as a trainer in a highly competitive £15,000 handicap hurdle at Ascot. That landmark total includes victories in Ireland and on the flat. We had further cause for celebration as he was the 100th winner his jockey […]

Lady Litigator dug deep to gain a highly pleasing success on her racecourse debut in a competitive three-year-old fillies’ bumper at Newbury on Wednesday. Her task wasn’t helped when she was left in front a long way from home, but despite running green through inexperience she responded willingly whenever she was challenged. At the line,

Jordans Cross atoned for his luckless last fence fall at Cheltenham last month with the narrowest of victories in a valuable Class 3 novice handicap Chase at Doncaster on Saturday in the colours of the Steeple Chasers. In gamely landing the first prize of £18,484, he took our winning tally for the season to just

QUEEN’S THEATRE made a pleasing winning debut over hurdles at Fontwell on Monday in the colours of the No Actors Here Syndicate. She was our 26th winner of a rewarding season as we continue to close on the total of £400,000 prize money won by our horses at a strike rate of 20%. While her

I was delighted to see OAKLEYS WAY come good with a comfortable victory in the colours of Mr Anthony Norman on his second start in handicap company off a mark of 97 over two miles, three furlongs at Taunton on Thursday. He is beautifully bred by the champion sire Walk in the Park and a

We have some really nice bumper horses this season and two of them fought out a tight  finish on their debuts at Wincanton on Thursday with victory going to Bailly’s Comet by a neck from Champ Kabai. The winner is a lovely prospect who did well to hold his position through the race because he

DOUBLE GLORY ON A SUPER SUNDAY . . . . . . . . Another rewarding day on Sunday took our score for the season to 23 at a very pleasing strike rate of 24%. CRACKERJACQUE had already given us a flying start to the afternoon with a runaway success on his debut over hurdles

GUSTAVIAN ON TAP AT WINCANTON . . . . . . . We enjoyed a great day at our local track Wincanton on Saturday with GUSTAVIAN and CREDO finishing first and third in the valuable Badger Beers Handicap Chase and BREAKING COVER beaten only a length by Blueking d’Oroux in the Rising Stars Chase. Gustavian

ROYAL RESULTS! PARK PRINCESS AND LORD BADDESLEY CROWN A WINNING DAY . . . . . . Our horses continue in very good form with a double on Thursday taking our score to twenty for the season with £226,000 in prize money which lifted us to tenth in the trainers’ table. First to greet the

A DEVON DOUBLE . . . . . . A double at Newton Abbot took our score for the season to 18 with a prize money total of £185,000. While we had a quiet start to the month when the ground was a bit quicker than ideal we are finishing October with a flourish. I