However, we have a yard full of horses and some look likely to be nice prospects in the coming weeks.
I was riding work on Saturday so picture credits must go to owner Richard Fuller.
After the staff reported him in good order, I decided to see if the rumours were true by having a sit on Attain. He became very disappointing last season but may have just been in need of a break and, having had the winter off, he is now in great form. The only worry is that he may just be kidding us along and not perform on the track still but the early signs are positive.
He ran along with Sancho Panza who has had a bit longer on the sidelines after a tendon injury. The vet scanned him again this week and gave him the all-clear so we can kick on with him now and run him in the next month or so.
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| Attain (Julia) and Sancho Panza (Annelie) |
Stable star Spirit of Sharjah is in really good form at the minute and we just let him have a swinger on his own as he probably does more exercise doing this rather than working with other horses who he is much better than. We have come to the conclusion that he doesn't like passing horses during a race nowadays so the plan will be to get near the front next time he runs.
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| Spirit of Sharjah (Ross) |
Two horses who are a pleasure to train are Silver Alliance and Automotive. Both love their work and yard life and they matched strides in a seven furlong gallop. Silver goes to Yarmouth a week on Monday and, although he needs things to fall right to win, he should be competitive. Mo will head to Lingfield a bit later. We are trying him over 1m2f as he just hasn't had the speed to get competitive over shorter. Hopefully the experiment works because he has a lot of ability.
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| Silver Alliance (Billy) and Automotive (Reno) |
The aforementioned lot are all racing regulars but we still have a fair few horses yet to grace the track and they went up Hamilton Hill on Saturday.
The three-year old chestnut filly below doesn't actually have a name yet but she has been showing some promising signs at home and will be running not before long. She gave us quite a few problems on arrival as she got very stressed out by all the action on the heath but putting a hood on her has really cooled her down and her rider Billy knows how to deal with her.
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| Three-year old filly by Firebreak (Billy) |
Another unraced type is four-year old Bethan. She came to us late last year having been given plenty of time by her owner to grow. She too has been a bit stressed by life as a racehorse but has calmed right down in the last few weeks. She moves like a dressage horse and does everything we do with her with ease. She hasn't done anything serious yet but could be one to watch.
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| Bethan (Ross) |
Believe In Me has had some racing experience and put in some promising runs as a juvenile. We gave her the winter off and although she hasn't grown much in height (she was quite tall anyway) she has filled her frame and looks a stronger filly now. The quirks she exhibited last season seem to have been left in the field too so, all being well, she will be hitting the track in the near future.
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| Believe In Me (Annelie) |
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| Assistant Trainer Rolo is a master of delegation |
Although the flat season is in full swing, there doesn't seem to be many suitable races for our horses so we've just the one runner in the coming seven days. Chilli Green's task this year is to get black type on her breeding which means she needs to be placed in a listed or group race. Her debut for us at Kempton last time wasn't as bad as it looked as she needed the run and got a bit of a bump at a crucial time. The race she is in on Saturday - The Leicestershire Stakes - we won a few years ago with Spirit of Sharjah. She isn't as good as him but hopefully good enough to land a place.
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