Tears of joy followed by tears of sadness

Well they say racing is a great leveller and so it proved on Wednesday at Lingfield. Sabre Rock scored in impressive style to make it five wins in a row under a fantastic ride by Shelley Birkett. He is now in line for the £10,000 bonus for most wins in the All Weather season, so will now aim for a race at the end of March. Half an hour later Tolly McGuiness ran in the Hands and Heels race ridden by our apprentice Ryan Moore. He was travelling well when disaster struck two furlongs from home when he fractured his fore leg and was pulled up quickly, unfortunately he could not be saved. I would like to thank Lingfield Racecourse for dealing with Tolly and myself with such speed and kindness. I had gone through every emotion in one hour.

Sabre Rock winning at Lingfield ridden by Shelley Birkett

Ryan riding Tolly McGuiness RIP

We do not have any horses entered until Friday when Meddling may run in a fillies handicap at Lingfield, if this race looks like being too tough then we will wait until Lingfield the following Friday for a lower grade race. She has been slightly held up by an infected cut that happened when she was running around the field, but she worked nicely on the All Weather on Wednesday with Avidly who is coming back to form after a couple of months break and will be running in the next couple of weeks. The other runner we have entered on Friday is Bushy Glade at Wolverhampton, she is in a low grade 1m 4f handicap and we hope she can improve for the step up in trip. Moment to Dream has been improving all the time in her work, so we would hope to see her make her debut in a couple of weeks.

Meddling (Mark) far side with Avidly (Adam)

Moment to Dream (Tina) far side with Bushy Glade (Ryan)

 All the horses that have had a Winter break have now stepped up a gear in preparation for the new turf season that opens at the end of March. Silver Alliance is in great form and worked nicely on the Cambridge Road polytrack on Saturday, we hope to run him at Chelmsford City on 16th March as a prep run before another turf season. Guising worked along side Silver, he is a October Horses in Training purchase who has been given a Winter break in the hope that he finds the good form he showed as a three year old, he will head to Doncaster for the Amateur handicap when Ross will be back from his trip to Australia to ride him

Silver Alliance (Mark) far side with Guising (Niall)

Two more horses that are returning from a break are Veeraya who has over come a serious operation for a twisted gut last year, he is now moving better than ever so we hope that this will be his year to repay the vets bills his owner has incurred over the last few months!! Handheld hates running on the All Weather so he is gearing up for a run at Doncaster at the end of March, hopefully he will get the soft ground that he needs.

Veeraya (Adam) near side with Handheld (Tessa)

 The two year olds are well forward and will be hitting the track in the first two year old races of the season, our first runner in this catagory will probably be It's a Sheila Thing a sharp filly by Sir Percy also running along well with her is Go On Gal a filly by Approve and Big Bang by Observatory out our wonderful mare Bavarica, he is our new horse for Newmarket Equine Tours Racing Club.

Candesta leading the two year olds on Saturday