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A return trip to Carlisle on Monday for LILITH paid off handsomely as she landed the valuable Mares’ Handicap Chase for the second year running in the colours of Decimus Racing V1. We decided to lay her out for that race after there were plenty of positives to be taken from her last start at […]

HATOS provided our first success of February with a decisive victory ridden by Richie McLernon in a two mile Handicap Chase at Ffos Las on Thursday. But our hopes of a quick double at the West Wales track were foiled when Smart Casual and Richie were brought down three flights from home in the next

We came within a whisker of a big race double at Doncaster with our only two runners on Saturday. Gabriel’s Getaway gave us the perfect start to the day with a fluent success in the £26,000 two mile handicap Chase despite being 7lbs out of the handicap. Forward Plan was then beaten a nose by

It was brilliant to see Sam Brown bounce back to form with a stirring victory in the Unibet Veterans Chase final at Warwick on Saturday. I’m delighted for his owner breeder Tim Frost who was present with his family to greet Sam afterwards. Sam Brown’s latest big race success came on a day when his

It was great to see CAPTAIN CLAUDE winning again under Ben Godfrey on Boxing Day, in the Handicap Chase at Fontwell. He’s now 2 wins from 2 runs over fences this season – unbeaten since making the switch. He won well last time out, also at Fontwell. This time we stepped him up in trip

Park Princess maintained the fine form of our team with an impressive winning debut in a mares’ bumper on testing ground at Newbury on Friday in the colours of Peter Jones and Diana Goodall. She settled nicely just behind the leaders, moved up to take command over a furlong out and readily stretched clear in

DARTMOOR PIRATE made an eye-catching impression with an eleven lengths winning  debut over hurdles at Wincanton on Tuesday in the colours of the twelve strong Geegeez.co.uk XXII. An attractive type by Black Sam Bellamy out of a prolific Aga Khan mare he had shown some promise in his first bumper start, a valuable sales race

FORWARD PLAN and Ben Godfrey shared the biggest win of their careers with a decisive victory in a Class 2 £50,000 Handicap Chase at Doncaster on Saturday in the colours of The Steeple Chasers. It was the second leg of another double for the yard with NORTON HILL successful half an hour earlier under top

A double at Wincanton on Tuesday took our score for the season to twenty three. We came tantalisingly close to a treble on the day with Smart Casual nabbed on the line in a handicap hurdle at Fontwell by Thirtyfourthirty after looking all over the winner on the flat. BABY SHALLY was the first to

We enjoyed a memorable double at Kempton on Monday with COQUELICOT providing our 400th winner as a trainer under both codes before BROOKIE took our score to 401 in the final race in the card. It’s been a fun journey for Rachael and I since our first success with Classic Fair at Taunton in December