TRIBE, winning at Bangor on 17th April 2010, our last winner of 2009/10 N.H. Season.
Unlike Nature, National Hunt seasons appear to merge seamlessly into each other, whereas Nature has trouble changing at all nowadays!!
Out with the old and we're straight into the New the following day, no time to reflect or dwell on the good bits, just time to crack on and improve on the less good.
I was thinking of writing a long and detailed end of term school report, but with the exception of my framed Maths reports of the Lent and Summer terms of 1974, which were epic (!), every single one has quickly ended up in the bin. I'm sure you'd do the same to mine, so we will look forwards and not backwards. Jim Steinman wrote, "Objects in the rearview mirror may appear closer than they are", so the relevance of looking back can be questionable!
We will have learned plenty from the disappointments of the season and endeavour to improve our performance. We would particularily like more and longer periods of horses performing consistently well, rather than purple patches that just last a month or so. We have had an inordinate number of seconds and thirds, with less winners than we'd like, so the aim has to be to transform the former into more of the latter.
Placing the horses is a balance between opportunity of winning and convenience for the owner; I wonder if sometimes I get this balance wrong and don't insist enough that the horse must be given preference over the quality of lunch!!
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