Sunday, 30 August 2009
Cropredy Lawn Update
Jerry, Amy and CARBON PRINT have set off on their 159 mile journey to the beach at Yarmouth to try to win the 5.50pm, an apprentice handicap over 1 1/4m. Sir Mark Prescott's apprentice, Rosie Jessop is doing the steering and conditions look ideal. The ground at Newmarket, rain sodden and Lingfield over-watered have not been in this horse's favour so there will be no excuses on that (beach)front today. He has an excellent chance.
Tuesday, 25 August 2009
Cropredy Lawn Update.
Its all so exciting. Our new, improved, '25% Extra free' Web-site is taking shape. It now has a blog, whatever that is and will soon feature photos in amongst the News pages. Wow, it's all too much. Of course this all means more work for the illiterate trainer, but he'll do his best.
Plenty of entries towards the end of the week, but running plans are still pretty vague. DE SOTO looks like being too far out of the handicap to risk running in the 50k chase at Ffos Las on friday, which will be a big shame as he's in top form. Patience has been rewarded with him and there will be more 'pay days' if we bide our time.
MEER UND WIND worked well at Wolverhampton last friday and is entered on sat., sun., and monday. She is working very easily and we are still confused by her below-par run at Warwick after pleasing all on her debut at Goodwood.
AUSTRALIA DAY got a bit impatient in the heavy M25 traffic he encountered on the way to Sandown last saturday and moved a hind shoe, the clip of which then pierced his foot. It was a desperate shame he had to miss the race as everything looked just about right for him. He is entered at Windsor this saturday, but is more likely to wait for a handicap hurdle at Stratford on 6th Sept.
ROBERT THE BRAVE is entered at Huntingdon in an attempt to follow up his win at Market Rasen, where he jumped an un-blemished round. He'll school tomorrow morning just as long as Hurrican Bill allowsus!
More detailed plans will appear later in the week.
Plenty of entries towards the end of the week, but running plans are still pretty vague. DE SOTO looks like being too far out of the handicap to risk running in the 50k chase at Ffos Las on friday, which will be a big shame as he's in top form. Patience has been rewarded with him and there will be more 'pay days' if we bide our time.
MEER UND WIND worked well at Wolverhampton last friday and is entered on sat., sun., and monday. She is working very easily and we are still confused by her below-par run at Warwick after pleasing all on her debut at Goodwood.
AUSTRALIA DAY got a bit impatient in the heavy M25 traffic he encountered on the way to Sandown last saturday and moved a hind shoe, the clip of which then pierced his foot. It was a desperate shame he had to miss the race as everything looked just about right for him. He is entered at Windsor this saturday, but is more likely to wait for a handicap hurdle at Stratford on 6th Sept.
ROBERT THE BRAVE is entered at Huntingdon in an attempt to follow up his win at Market Rasen, where he jumped an un-blemished round. He'll school tomorrow morning just as long as Hurrican Bill allowsus!
More detailed plans will appear later in the week.
Tuesday, 18 August 2009
What a BIG DAY Saturday was! Sorry not to have posted encouragement on this site, but after the non-event of DE SOTO's run at Lingfield it was difficult to be confident. I will not air my displeasure publically but Ted Durcan, an excellent man, disregarded every shread of advice we gave him, enough said. It was a huge thrill to win again with this horse and a massive tribute to head lad, Trevor Heath who looks after him and to all the team for re-building the horse's confidence. Dominic also deserves high praise for an immaculate ride. I've just heard that he's been raised 9lbs to 129 so we'll make a plan in the next few days.
ROBERT THE BRAVE lived right upto his name, when making just about all the running, to win his first chase at Market Rasen. He has always schooled like a chaser and he jumped very boldly for William Kennedy. Today we are literally 'chasing the hatrick' at Worcester where RED BIRR has his first run over fences. From the very first fence he has schooled over, 'BIRR' has just loved it, so we are very hopefully of a good run today, as long as our luck can last for three chases in succesion! 'BIRR' is Jane Nicholls' absolute favourite so this debut over fences is going to be thorough test of her nerve as much as that of the horse's, spare a thought for all at 5.40pm today.
ROBERT THE BRAVE lived right upto his name, when making just about all the running, to win his first chase at Market Rasen. He has always schooled like a chaser and he jumped very boldly for William Kennedy. Today we are literally 'chasing the hatrick' at Worcester where RED BIRR has his first run over fences. From the very first fence he has schooled over, 'BIRR' has just loved it, so we are very hopefully of a good run today, as long as our luck can last for three chases in succesion! 'BIRR' is Jane Nicholls' absolute favourite so this debut over fences is going to be thorough test of her nerve as much as that of the horse's, spare a thought for all at 5.40pm today.
Saturday, 15 August 2009
New Diary
We have launched a new diary which will allow us to add photos from Cropredy Lawn. The new diary is also searchable and you'll be delighted to hear that it also has a spell checker.
Friday, 7 August 2009
A little quandary to start the day. This heavy rain of the last few days has been well-forecast and Lingfield received 17mm on thursday night as predicted. So it really helps that they watered on thursday afternoon adding 5mm to parts of the track. Although it may not appear so, are we in summer when we expect and plan for fast ground. Lingfield today will now be good to soft, whereas if they had not tried to 'play God' it would be perfect ground.
We know that DE SOTO does not act on soft 'jumping' ground as well as he does on better ground, indeed fast ground is ideal for him. Ted Durkan reported that CARBON PRINT would have won at Newmarket last time when he finished a close fourth on recently-softened ground. Yesterday i was pretty hopefully of a double, particularily as we have found a five runner maiden. Today, doubts have apppeared and we'll have to see how the ground is riding. I don't remember much latin from school, but i do recall studying a report from a rain-affected chariot racing meeting at the Colosseum. 17mm of rain changed the surface considerably and the form book was being torn to shreds. Victorius Chandlerus and his fellow bookmakers were 'denari-ing it in' and the advice from the Clerk of the Amphitheatre was....' Caveat Puntus'.
We know that DE SOTO does not act on soft 'jumping' ground as well as he does on better ground, indeed fast ground is ideal for him. Ted Durkan reported that CARBON PRINT would have won at Newmarket last time when he finished a close fourth on recently-softened ground. Yesterday i was pretty hopefully of a double, particularily as we have found a five runner maiden. Today, doubts have apppeared and we'll have to see how the ground is riding. I don't remember much latin from school, but i do recall studying a report from a rain-affected chariot racing meeting at the Colosseum. 17mm of rain changed the surface considerably and the form book was being torn to shreds. Victorius Chandlerus and his fellow bookmakers were 'denari-ing it in' and the advice from the Clerk of the Amphitheatre was....' Caveat Puntus'.
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