New girl on the block

After a disappointing week with the runners, Candesta ran poorly, we have our sights firmly set on Friday when Inauguration, a filly we recently bought at Tattersalls sales out of the Charles Hills yard, makes her debut for us at Lingfield. She has only had 4 runs, most recently finishing 3rd at Kempton, so is still fairly unexposed. We galloped her with Silver Alliance this week and seems to be doing everything right to hopefully break the maiden tag fairly soon.

Inauguration (Shelley) and Silver Alliance (Niall)

Another horse who will be making his stable debut for us soon is Guising. As soon as we bought him he was turned away to freshen up and is now back to almost the galloping stage. Unlike the filly he has already won and was not a bad sort in his younger days so if we can recapture some of his early form he will be an exciting horse for the year.

Guising (Tina)

After a long absence through illness we have finally got the talented Veeraya almost back to full fitness. He is the highest rated horse in the yard and ran a cracking race last year in the big race on Good Friday at Lingfield. We hoped to have another good winter with him this time around but unfortunately he fell severely ill in the autumn and we are so relieved he is so happy and back to doing what he does best.

Veeraya (Natalie)

We have been quietly bringing along our 2 year olds and I have to admit I have not seen any other string going as well as mine! I cannot believe how well behaved and hard they  have been, we have not had a single sore shin or problem with any of them yet, which means we have been able to spend a lot of time teaching them the ways of the world. Even our home bred colt Big Bang has really grown up and done so well to catch up with the fillies after being broken in a lot later than the rest.

L-R Go On Gal, Little Orchid, Big Bang, It's A Sheila Thing, Dakota City (lead horse)

I woke up to very exciting news on Tuesday when I found that our fantastic mare Bavarica had given birth to her second foal, (after Big Bang) a lovely colt by Cityscape. We were soon over to visit and were even lucky enough to see him turned out for the first time and captured his first impressions of the big wide world! I almost had a tear in my eye seeing the mare as she as been such an amazing horse for the family, when ever we were on the cold trainers list you could count on 'Rita' to get us off of it! Nothing seems to faze her but we are still undecided about covering her again this year as it is more for fun than anything else.

Bavarica and new born colt

Bavarica foaled down at Northmore Stud which is in the village and while we were there we paid a visit to Bestfootforward, a mare we used to train for the stud and who won for us and was very quick. She gave birth to a filly by Equiano a few days before our mare. 

Bestfootforward and new born filly

We are all gearing up for the return of Sabre Rock on the 4th of March and he is progressing brilliantly in his preparation. He galloped with Handheld on Saturday and was very pleasing as usual.

Handheld (Ryan) and Sabre Rock (Mark)