News

As we approach the end of August – things get a little busy. As always, we like to organise yard visits for September, so that owners and syndicate members get the chance to meet up at the yards...

If you spot more spelling mistakes than usual in this weeks news, it is not due to an overly social Saturday night (which is the usual reason for poor spelling)– it was in fact very quiet...

At last the weather made a turn for the better, and not before time. A good job too, as this week was spent out and about at the sales, a yard visit, a days racing in Yorkshire, along with a very long...

            Sadly, the weather did not play ball this week – once again wet, windy and cold conditions prevalent across most of the...

For the last month the jet stream has provided us with some cooler and definitely wetter weather- we had hoped that it would have shifted slightly for what we had planned in the last week, but sadly...

Last weekend we became aware of some really sad news coming out of the Kevin Philippart De Foy yard, an as then unamed member of staff had been found dead at the yard in the early hours of Sunday...

When you send the horses on their holidays around April time – it feels like forever until they will be back in their stables again – yet, every year, that period between April and July...

Quite the week – a few horses, those that enjoy better ground, and/or have early season targets returned to their stables to start work again – I became another year older, but certainly...

One of my favourite weeks of the year – the Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale held in Fairyhouse. A select sale of just over 400 of the best 3 yr old National Hunt Stores of their generation...

By this time next week, the first of our horses will be back in a stable in preparation to return to training the next day. It does not seem like five minutes since we were organising them all to go...