El Vips victory

Thank you very much to those clients who emailed following El Vip’s victory at Doncaster on Saturday, it is much appreciated. Sent off 3/1, some readers managed to snap up 11/2 on the morning of the race. It was good to see the colt make a winning start to his career and, in doing so, justifying Luca Cumani’s high opinion of him. The handicapper hasn’t taken any chances allocating the son of Pivotal a mark of 92. It will be interesting to see where he heads next.

I have conducted stable interviews with Gordon Elliott and Brian Ellison during the last 24 hours for One Jump Ahead. The former has the second strongest team in Ireland, which has been further bolstered during the summer, while the latter is arguably responsible for the finest team of jumpers in the North at present. Leading patron Phil Martin has been busy at the ‘off season’ sales according new stock to the yard. They are two superb additions to OJA.