Sophie Fooks

We are thrilled to report that we have had another successful year of the 5-2-Follow competition and have raised a super £335 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… In 1st Place with a whopping

A double at Plumpton on Sunday took our score for the new season to four. It came hot on the heels of another double at Fontwell on Wednesday. We enjoy our regular trips to both tracks and had plenty to celebrate on Sunday after Sea Invasion and Queen’s Theatre won the final two races on

We came tantalisingly close to a treble at Fontwell on Wednesday with our only three runners on the card.

Having ended the season on Saturday with our best ever total of 48 winners we are now in Ireland with a team of half a dozen horses for the Punchestown Festival. It’s a meeting we always like to target. No wonder, because we’ve enjoyed a fair bit of success there over the last few years.

An across the card double on Easter Monday took our score to 48 with less than a week to the end of the season. Sea Invasion was the first to win at Plumpton in a class 4 handicap Chase over three and a quarter miles. While he’d shown bits and pieces of form over fences

Public Enemy fulfilled the promise of his debut for us with a fluent success in a two mile maiden hurdle at Plumpton on Sunday. It came hot on the heels of a fruitful three days for our team at Aintree where Brookie and Crest of Fortune were both placed in Grade 1 company. Public Enemy

DANCE AND GLANCE bounced back to form with a highly pleasing success under a penalty in the opening novice hurdle at Taunton on Tuesday in the colours of Mere Racing. In providing our 45th win of the season he took the prize money earned by our horses past £600,000. Dance and Glance had started the

CREDO gained her second success in a valuable three mile Veterans Chase qualifier in less than two months with a comfortable victory at Carlisle on Sunday, ridden by champion jockey Harry Cobden. Having won the Exeter qualifier on her early in February, Harry was keen to ride her more prominently this time and give her

Leave of Absence delivered a significant success for the yard from the front in his first handicap over fences at Newbury on Friday in the colours of Richard and Carol Cheshire. He was our 43rd winner of the season which is one more than our best total achieved last season. Leave of Absence was one