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A double at Exeter’s evening meeting on Friday took our total for the season to 37 winners! That’s a new record score for the yard and a welcome achievement after the frustration earlier in the day of taking four horses to Fontwell before withdrawing them with the ground a fair bit quicker than had been […]

The 5-2-Follow leader board has just been updated .. and we’ve got a new front runner!! With just over two weeks of the competition left it’s getting close! All this rain is meaning we still have a large number of horses in training with plenty still to run! It’s also an exciting weekend for the

COQUELICOT extended the fine form form of our team with a decisive success on her handicap debut on the flat at Nottingham in the colours of our yard sponsor Geegeez.co.uk. In winning the two mile handicap by four lengths from the favourite Tuddenham Green she was providing my first victory on the flat for more

SOMESPRING SPECIAL lived up to her name with a stylish first success in a Mares’ Novices’ Handicap Hurdle at Fontwell on Monday in the colours of the Yeo Racing Partnership. An attractive five year old by WESTERNER out of a mare who won three times, she has progressed steadily this season and made all the

BLACKJACK MAGIC bounced back to form with a fluent victory under top weight off a mark of 128 in a £12,000 Novices’ Limited Handicap Chase at Uttoxeter on Saturday. A fortnight ago in a competitive race over the same course he was on the back foot after a mistake and was eventually pulled up by

CREST OF GLORY provided our most valuable success of the season with a dominant victory on his racecourse debut in the Goffs UK Spring Sale Bumper at Newbury on Saturday. In routing a large field of runners he earned a cheque of £59,010 for his enthusiastic owners and posted a performance that offered untold promise

I GIORNI put a disappointing campaign behind her with a narrow victory under top weight in the Cazoo Mares’ Novices’ Handicap Hurdle at Hereford on Monday in the colours of The Soldiers Of Fortune. I had high hopes for her early this season but after she ran poorly on her first two starts I gave

CAPTAIN CLAUDE took our score for the season to 31 with a fluent success ridden by Ben Godfrey in a Class 5 Novice Handicap Hurdle at Fontwell on Saturday. He was in front from half-way, soon pulled clear and kept on relentlessly for a pleasing first victory over hurdles. It was a fine afternoon for

DREAMING BLUE gained his first success over fences with a fluent round of jumping under Rex Dingle at Doncaster on Friday in a £20,000 Novices Handicap Chase in the colours of Roger Devlin. He has now won on the flat, over hurdles and fences, although there have been one or two hiccups along the way.

WINDANCE continued the fine form of our team with a narrow victory in a valuable Class 3 Handicap Chase at Wincanton on Thursday in the colours of Decimus Racing III. He was given a positive ride by Sam Twiston-Davies who set out to make all the running at a sound tempo and saved just enough