Tuesday 23 September

It could be busy at the end of the week, with Mattaking entered at Southwell, and Kikos entered to make his chasing debut at Market Rasen. Matty is 55:45 to get in, so fingers crossed with him as the ground should be ideal, and he enjoys the 'French' style of hurdle, and Kikos is in a 2 1/4 mile handicap chase, which may be a bit on the short side for him, but we need to start somewhere, and looking at his last hurdle race at Bangor for Alan King you can make a case for him not actually staying the 2 1/2 miles, so we thought we would start here and learn about him for ourselves. Whatever happens it should be very informative. Just a little note about the boys from Sunday - both seem well and will have a few days off to get over their runs. I must just point out what a fantastic training performance it was by Mrs Robeson, Stuart and all the team to get Important Business to the races, never mind finish second, Their efforts, along with a fantastic job by Ed Brett from the Hampden Veterinary Hospital got the fellow to the track, as 6 weeks ago he got very badly cast and was very lame indeed. He needed some serious treatment to his back at the hospital, and then a continued regime of massage and manipulation from his very dedicated lass, Alice to get him back racing. Myself and all of the owners are very grateful indeed. Thanks to all.