Adoyen Spice 3rd Wolverhampton

Adoyen Spice came 3rd at Wolverhampton today, just failing to get to
the front. In another 25yds she would have won. We were delighted with
her run and her owners, Ron and Milly Bright, are pictured above with
"Spice".

Winter Wonderland!

The winter weather has not stopped us turning out the horses. They like the snow and we make sure they are well rugged-up and turn them out for 2-3 hours. We give them haylage in the field but they still like to search for grass beneath the snow.
The pictures show Benandonner and Red Somerset (both of which came back into work at the beginning of the month).

IF YOU WHISPER WINS at Southwell

If You Whisper lost his maiden tag at Southwell today under a good ride from Martin Lane. Although slow out of the stalls he made good ground to the bend. He was a little green when he hit the front but found more once the second placed horse came to him. He is a big scopey individual who should make up into a nice 3yo. We are delighted for his owner, Phil Woods, who has been very patient.

Lutine Bell 3rd at Kempton "NO FLUKE"

Lutine Bell with two of his owners, Bill and Chris Rogerson

We were very pleased with Lutine Bell's run at Kempton and he can be regarded as unlucky. He was stopped twice in his run in the final two furlongs having been shuffled further back at the start of the race. He will be put away for the winter now and we are excited by his prospects for next season.

Lutine Bell bolted up on the first run for us having left Sir Mark Prescott who was gracious enough to send us a fax to congratulate us on the horse's "impressive win". On his next run for us he was well beaten at Lingfield but was drawn wide and saw too much daylight. This was obvious to close followers of horseracing. The handicapper was impressed by the win at Wolverhampton and raised the horse 12lb to 92. He took little notice of the Lingfield race and dropped him a notional 1lb.

Nick Luck of Racing UK felt we had a chance in his pre-race comments. However, his co-presenter, Lydia Hislop, dismissed his win at Wolverhampton "as a fluke". While everyone is entitled to their opinions (though I prefer to back mine up with facts or at least a little substance) there was no mention after the race of the fine run of Lutine Bell. Maybe the presenter in question was too embarassed to say she had dismissed the horse's chances and what a great race he had run. A little humility would not go amiss especially given th recent negatice publicity the Racing UK team has attracted.

Ebraam WINS at Lingfield

Ebraam was given an excellent ride by Julie Burke on tuesday to win at Lingfield. He had been off since May, when we claimed him, as we saw him as an AW horse who was entitled to a break given the amount of racing he add. We had this race in mind for some time and we were delighted with his performance but sad to see him claimed. However, there are very few races for him so it will be interesting to see where the new connections place him.

Photograph courtesy of hoycubedphotography.com