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Routine….
Wednesday April 13th – A grey, cool dampish sort of day;  Northern Flame, Amulree and Papamoa went to work at Lucinda’s, about a dozen worked in the round school and on the all-weather and the weekend runners went for a long hack. Hugh was in to geld our Midnight Legend colt (well, gelding now) out…
Read MoreHead to head….
Monday April 11th…. With Almost Blue and Commercial Express having won their previous starts it was bound to be a hotly contested race when they were forced into taking each other on at Morpeth yesterday, the trainer couldn’t split them and neither could the market which opened up with Uncle & Nephew as 6-4 joint favourites for…
Read MoreSpring..
Sunday April 10th… Any anti-climax after the Grand National is quickly dissipated by the discovery of a free CD with our Daily Telegraph, music for the Royal Wedding, marvellous, what could be better, the journey today to Morpeth will fly by as I rejoice in anticipation of the big day….. what will they think of…
Read MoreBig day..
Saturday April 9th … Glorious spring weather today and after arriving back late from Aintree last night it was straight back to work with 30 plus horses fed by 6.30 and lots going on on the all weather and schooling ground throughout the morning. It’s unfortunate that it looks like we will have to run…
Read MoreBingo! (& stable update)
Sunday April 3rd – I was delighted when Daasij gave us our 3rd winner of the week at Newcastle on Friday, it appears that stepping up to 3 miles did the trick and hopefully he can progress from here. All three winners are looked after by Emma Dick who having now completed the hat-trick will…
Read MoreBlogamus, blogatus, blogant…
Friday March 25th – Well she says they are getting boring again, can’t read them without yawning, he says what do you expect, he has had toothache for two weeks and has lost his sense of humour, can’t eat properly so making up for it by overdosing on ice cream, not even losing any weight…
Read MoreSunshine
Thursday March 24th – Glorious spring weather today, warm and sunny. The horses that worked hard yesterday were allowed to take advantage of it and went for a long hack up the hill and through the forestry, others worked in the round school, on the all weather and on the rapidly drying out grass. The…
Read MoreWednesday
Wednesday 23rd March – Plenty happening again this morning with “Alf,” Minimo and Four Fiddlers all working nicely at Lucinda’s all-weahter, “Alf” showed particular improvement on his earlier visit there which is just as well. Back here Daasij, Amulree and Papamoa worked on our all-weather and the point-to-pointers who are likely to be running on…
Read MoreBusy Day..
Sunday 20th March – Hmm, six runners yielded two thirds & a fourth, not bad, all ran well enough apart from Northern Flame who didn’t seem to want to know, frustrating as I’ve long regarded him as one of our best prospects, Campbell’s initial reaction was that mentally he doesn’t want to race but I…
Read MoreAdieu, mon ami…
A very sad start to the week when I found our stable stalwart Timmy in severe discomfort with colic early on Monday morning, the vet was here quickly but it soon became apparent that the kindest solution was to put him to sleep.  Timmy gave Clare one of the best days of her life hunting here only last…
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