Lots of Success this Month
Over the past month, the horses have continued to be in good form clocking up five wins and nine placings. With twenty five winners on the board so far, we couldn’t have hoped for a better start.
It’s always so rewarding when horses have multi wins and we have been fortunate to have several who fall into this bracket. Oceans Red had won earlier in the season and had also been placed several times, so it was lovely to see him win again at Sedgefield under a confident ride from Toby.
Other winners this month include El Borracho, who was first past the post again at Wetherby, and Cawthorne, who scored his fourth win this season at Uttoxeter.
We have also had success with Heritier who made the long journey to Kelso to win well under Craig Nichol. He is a very strong horse who needs switching off early and producing late, which Craig does extremely well. We will be looking to step him up in trip as we feel he will be more suited to a longer distance now that he is learning to settle better in the early part of the race.
We were delighted with Sucellus winning at Wolverhampton too. He won at Haydock on his first start of the flat season and consequently got put up 9lbs in the handicap which saw him struggle all season to get his head back in front. However, he looked very impressive back on the all-weather and won going away. He has been a star for his owners Phil and Leslie Evans and owes them nothing; they bought him for £2,500 at the Newmarket HIT sale two years ago, and he has now notched up winnings of over £30k!
It is a great relief that we have now had some decent rainfall and finally been able to work on the grass. We worked a load on the grass this week and we look to have a very exciting team for the winter. We have so many lovely National Hunt types and also plenty of really exciting novice hurdlers to look forward to.