News
Thursday 19 January
Land League made his rules debut in Market Rasen yesterday, and we couldn't be happier with the way things went. He looked an absolute picture in the paddock, a real credit to Stuart and his team....
read moreTuesday 17 January
Land League makes his UK/hurdling debut tomorrow in Market Rasens opening Novices hurdle. This fine, scopey good looking horse was very sick when he arrived from Ireland, where just 10 days before he...
read moreMonday 16 January
Stuart and I will have another chat later this afternoon, to finalise plans for Wednesday. Land League is entered in Market Rasen, and we will talk over the entry, and decide wether he takes his...
read moreFriday 13 January
A quiet day - just the news that Land league has a second entry in Ludlow next Thursday. He already has an entry in Market Rasen on Wednesday, and will continue to have entries going forward. I saw...
read moreThursday 12 January
We beat the snow this morning - and good to see Paul Wells in this morning to see his horses, joined by his friends Phil and Mary Beresford. After breakfast they got to see Maria's Benefit breeze off...
read moreWednesday 11 January
Not too much news to report at the moment. like a lot of yards, Stuart gives all of his horses their jabs at the beginning of January, and for that reason, the ones in hard work, have a couple of days...
read moreSunday 8 January
Cloonacool ran a good race to be fourth in a very competitive handicap hurdle in Sandown yesterday. Blinkers were fitted for the first time, as we were slightly disappointed with his finishing effort...
read moreFriday 6 January
Cloonacool is declared run in Sandowns concluding 2 mile handicap hurdle tomorrow (3.35). He ran just 11 days ago in Kemopton, and although not beaten miles he did disappoint me a little in his...
read moreWednesday 4 January
Today was trials day. Stuart has been experimenting with headgear on Cloonacool this week, he schooled in cheekpieces earlier on, and today it was the day to try the blinkers in a routine piece of...
read moreMonday 2 January
Cloonacool has been entered in a 2m handicap hurdle in Sandown on Saturday. He has come out of his Kempton run in fine form, and you really wouldn't know he had a race, so we thought we would pop him...
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