Julia Feilden Racing: Back to business

We arrived back from Ireland today, hence the late blog, and had a lovely time seeing friends and checking out foals and yearlings before they go to the sales next year. It is an annual thing and the only time in the year John and I can both get away together.

It has been quite a busy week with runners kicking off on Tuesday at Chelmsford with It's A Sheila Thing. She has now had 3 runs and it will just be a waiting game now to see where the handicapper puts her, all 3 runs were promising but without really threatening so I am hoping for an easy opening mark because she is definitely ready to win a nursery.

Wednesday saw Dark Diamond run another solid race at Pontefract, the early fractions were fast which meant he ended up a little further back than ideal and so could not peg back the leaders when they kicked but managed to run on into a gallant second. Also there that day was Automotive, he was trying a mile for the first time in a while and he also ran great into 4th, I think a stiff mile suits him and this opens up more options for the future with him.

The next day at Sandown Silver Alliance ran in a hot race but did well to finish 4th, he is such a solid horse and is hopefully on the way back to another win soon.

Yesterday saw Limerick Lord run disappointingly at Leicester, his high head carriage is a bit suspicious and the first time blinkers seemed to have the opposite affect.

We didn't have any horses galloping this week so I was able to take some pictures of the horses in their routine canters. All of which will be heading to the race track very soon.

Attain (Luke)

Candesta (Sam)

The Ducking Stool (Tessa)

The Ducking Stool runs on Saturday at Newbury in a lady amateurs race, she has run well in the race in the past so I am hopeful of a nice run as she ran well at the track on her previous outing.

Guising (Nick)

Vastly (Adam)

Vastly runs tomorrow at Nottingham in an apprentice race. He is probably better on the all-weather but he is rated a lot lower on the turf and I think his last run can be ignored as it was his first run in after injury and he is quite a gross horse who takes a while to get 100% fit.