It was the opening day of the Coral Winter Festival at Newbury - the Hennessy meeting to most of us - on Friday and local trainer Nicky Henderson had a productive afternoon with Impose Toi throwing his hat into the ring as far as the Stayers' Hurdle is concerned with victory in the Grade 2 Long Distance Hurdle. The seven year old won the two and a half miles handicap hurdle at the same fixture twe...
Things didn't go to plan for Salvator Mundi on his chasing debut at Thurles on Thursday with the Grade 1 winning novice hurdler headed after the last by stablemate Kappa Jy Pyke in the two miles two beginners chase. Beaten a length and a quarter, the No Risk At All gelding didn't do a lot wrong in the jumping department and appeared to be in control turning for home. However, the alarm bells start...
Apologies for not updating the Diary for a few days. It has been a busy first half of the week - I attended a photo shoot for Racing Tv at Sandown Park on Tuesday. It was my first visit to the Esher track for a number of years and it was good to return. It is a first class racecourse with excellent facilities and just a pity its such a long way from home. Luckily, the journey back wasn't bad at al...
Grey Dawning emphatically turned the tables on dual winner Royale Pagaille in the Betfair Chase at Haydock on Saturday. Twelve months earlier, Venetia Williams' charge had got the better of his younger rival in testing conditions but the eight year old gained his revenge in no uncertain terms. Ridden with more patience on this occasion, the Skelton runner jumped fluently and barely came off the br...
Declan Phelan's Irish Pointers section continued his tremendous run of form with two more winners on Friday - both look fine prospects for the future, too. Le Frimeur (Evens) had impressed when winning his sole point for Pat Doyle in March before being transferred to Harry Derham during the summer. A four year old by Gemix, he was strong in the market prior to his Rules debut in the opening two mi...
At the risk of repeating myself, the Irish Pointers section in One Jump Ahead unearthed another promising youngster in Cristal D'Estruval (11/4) who won on his Rules debut at Warwick on Thursday. A four year old by Crystal Ocean, who won narrowly in his sole point for Colin Bowe in February, he was subsequently purchased for £400,000 at the Cheltenham Festival Sale the following month. Out o...
Declan Phelan's Irish Pointers section in One Jump Ahead maintained his good run with another winner on Wednesday. Legendary Luke (9/2) was purchased for £100,000 in April having won his sole start 'between the flags' for Sean Doyle last spring. Runner-up in a bumper at Worcester in October on his first run for Jamie Snowden, the five year old appreciated the step up to two and a half miles ...
Rarely have so many talented performers lined up on a Monday in mid November with Grade 1 winning novice hurdlers Kopek Des Bordes and Lulamba making impressive starts to their chasing careers at Navan and Exeter respectively. The former, who won the Sky Bet Supreme Novices' Hurdle at Cheltenham last spring, took over at an early stage in the two miles one beginners chase and never saw another riv...
Following the successes of No Drama This End and Panic Attack on the first two days of the Paddy Power meeting at Cheltenham, it was very much a case of coming back down to earth with a bang on Sunday. Everything that could go wrong managed to do so. It was a poor afternoon for the November Update with the selections failing to trouble the judge.
Jig's Forge ran a sound race on his fencing ...
Panic Attack defied an absence of 280 days to win the Paddy Power Gold Cup at Cheltenham on Saturday providing Dan Skelton with his first victory in the two and a half miles event. Previously handled by Willie Mullins and David Pipe, the nine year old was only having her second start over fences for her current yard and was racing off a ten pounds higher mark than when winning at Windsor in Januar...
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