Posts Tagged ‘horses’
Quiet Monday
Monday May 9th…Warm but showery today, first tennis match of the year planned for this evening so bound to rain. Ground likely to be pretty soft at Perth I guess, suits me generally. Most of the horses had quite an easy day, hacking across the arable ground and some gentle canters back on the grass,…
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Sunday May 8th..So, rain arrives, ground softens and competitive point-to-pointing returns with lots of runners in front of a good crowd at Aspatria deep in the Cumbrian countryside. We ran two in the Mens’s Open but we were up against it taking on an improving young horse from Cheshire ridden by the man who has ridden more…
Read MoreFarewell England…
So that’s it then I suppose, the Nats have it, a proper mandate and a(nother) referendum beckons, of course it won’t really mean the end of the Union, the people don’t want that, they just couldn’t bear to vote for potato head, who can blame them, and the LibDems were obviously in for a drubbing…
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Tuesday May 3rd – April was a tremendous month for us and I am anxious to keep the ball rolling however the extraordinary weather continues so none of our 4 entries at Kelso tomorrow are running and our horses were also absent from the Lauderdale p2p on Sunday. We have entries this weekend at Aspatria…
Read MoreLet them eat…..
Monday April 25th –…sweets, one of the many highlights of Mrs A’s catering for the jockeys at the Fife Point-to-Point on Saturday. Unfortunately there weren’t many there as the recent dry spell has led to a dearth of runners in point-to-points up and down the country, ironically it rained steadily for most of the day…
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Friday April 22nd – Easter, the Fife Point-to-Point and Perth entries; glorious weather all week so fast ground means that what might have been a crazily busy day tomorrow should be a relaxed fun one with perhaps one or two runners at Balcormo where determined water has taken the sting out of most of the…
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Another splendid day and 16 horses did 3 steady 7f canters on the riverbank gallop, it is nearly perfect now and hopefully we will do some fast work on it later in the week. A few others went hacking, we’re at the stage in the season when a lot of the horses really need turned…
Read MoreDry…
Monday April 18th – Solid sort of morning here, fantastic weather though dull now, 18 horses worked in the schools and on the all-weather, Forcefield & Commercial Express went for a long hack in the forestry. Had our bi-annual inspection from the BHA which passed reasonably smoothly, made lots of entries for the weekend &…
Read MorePeaceful day…
Sunday April 17th – Peaceful day on the yard, all the horses either on the walker or relaxing in the paddocks enjoying some spring grass. No runners at the point-to-point but Lucy has two rides at Wetherby, Perez in the 2.25 and Knock Three Times in the 4.40 so relaxing won’t really be the right…
Read MoreThe heart beats faster……
Saturday April 16th 2011 – With the reappearance of the mighty Frankel this afternoon at Newbury. Sadly I don’t have the mental capacity to follow flat racing very closely but I do follow the Group races and I think the whole racing world is hoping that Henry Cecil might have a superstar on his hands,…
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