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TUESDAY 9TH MARCH

BIN END, FAR FROM OLD, HIGHLAND LEGACY AND ALLIED POWERS

PASTEL BLUE was our first runner on Friday to run at Lingfield. She again pulled quite hard early on in the race and paid the price for this when she was caught inside the final furlong after setting a decent gallop. She has gone home now and a decision will be made on her future. She is a well bred filly and has won a race so she could possibly be kept for breeding.

REGENERATION, LOCHAN GIRL AND SATURN GIRL

Later in the evening Ian Burns made his racecourse debut on AL DAFA and he gave him a good ride having him settled in about fifth for most of the race. When asked to go the horse lookd a bit one paced and stayed on well to finish sixth. The horse will benefit from the run and hopefully he will certainly have the ability to win his maiden. I am also sure on the evidence of Ian's first ride it will not be that long before he rides his first winner!

MOTIRANI, MONT AGEL AND WIGMORE HALL

On Thursday we have declared JUICY PEAR and DR FINLEY to run at Southwell and Wolverhampton. Poor old JUICY PEAR has been so unlucky in both his previous starts and hopefully he will get a change of fortune here.

DR FINLEY AND STRONG VIGILANCE

DR FINLEY failed to win his maiden last season after some good efforts when always finishing in the first four. He looks a much better horse for this year and it would be great to get his season started with a victory here. he has strengthend up well over the winter.

SOUL HEAVEN AND COORDINATED CUT

We have also made an entry for BURGHLEY on Saturday at Wolverhampton. He was an impressive winner when scoring his victory at Wolverhampton in a maiden in January. The form of the race has worked out well and it will be good to see this horse on the track again.

COLLECT ART, SUNNY GAME AND PLAYGROUND

 

FRIDAY 5TH MARCH

      

SATURN GIRL                                        SUNNY GAME

     

PLAYGROUND                                      TELL HALAF

Well thankfully BINTHERE DUNTHAT got off the mark last night at Wolverhampton. She traveled really well throughout the race and quickened at the furlong pole. She always looked in control and showed some decent cruising speed with a good change of foot when asked to go. It is great to get a win under her belt with and she certainly deserved a change of fortune. Hopefully we can now find some nice races for her and she will progress in those.

    

COLLECT ART                                      AL DAFA

    

MONT AGEL                                                 HYPNOTIZED

We did not declare JUICY PEAR to run in the claimer this evening but we have declared PASTEL BLUE to run at Lingfield and AL DAFA to run at Wolverhampton. PASTEL BLUE pulled very hard when she run at Lingfield last time over a mile. We feel she will appreciate the drop back to seven furlongs and hopefully Pat Cosgrave who is riding her due to Hayley's ban will manage to get her to relax and settle nicely. She is capable of winning races and hopefully we feel with conditions in her favour she will go close.

       

CRUNCHED                                             MOTIRANI

           

STRONG VIGILANCE                           TACTICIAN

Tonight Ian Burns our new apprentice has his first ride at Wolverhampton on AL DAFA. The horse would not be without a chance and Ian has proved since he started here in September 2008 that he has the makings of a jockey in time. He is going to walk the course when he arrives with our Traveling Head lad Chris Conway which should be educational. AL DAFA ran last year for Godolphin and was switched to us after he had two runs for them, hopefully he could be a nice horse. We just hope that both horse and jockey will enjoy the experience and they will have a fairytale finish.

      

BAKONGO                                                BINTHERE DUNTHAT

            

ENJOYMENT                                          SOUL HEAVEN

We have made entries next week FOR JUICY PEAR on Thursday at Southwell and also for DR FINLEY at Wolverhampton and then on Friday we have made another entry for DR FINLEY also at Wolverhampton. It is great to start getting going again now with runners and things really seem to have picked up. Please do not forget to enter our Six to Follow competition, entries close on the 25th March.

      

BLUE ZEALOT                                       MAIN SPRING

            

MING MENG                                          BOUNCY BOUNCY

TUESDAY 2ND MARCH

ALLIED POWERS

Poor JUICY PEAR was unlucky again yesterday and with a furlong to run you would have felt confident he was going to oblige but sadly he lost the race in a three way photo having been caught on the line. It is a great shame that he did not get off the mark as we were confident that he would go close. He is in again on Friday in the claiming race and could possibly take his chance if he is okay over the next couple of days. Sadly Hayley is banned so if he does run he will be ridden by Jimmy Fortune. It is great to be able to use Jimmy Fortune as he is a good jockey and after losing his retainer to John Gosden, it means that through the season he will be more available to use. John Gosden's loss is certainly everyone else's gain.

LOCHAN MOR

We have declared BINTHERE DUNTHAT for Thursday at Wolverhampton. She has been in great form and surely a win after two seconds is only a matter of time. We hope we have found the ideal race for her here and fingers crossed she will now get off the mark.

REGENERATION

Today was Derby forfeits and after scratching five, we now only have three horses from Fitzroy left in the race. They are COORDINATED CUT, MONT AGEL and PROMPTER and hopefully come the 5th June we will still have one in the race to keep the dream alive.

FAR FROM OLD