Paul Webber Racing

GTAAB learning The Water Walk.

During these baking hot days, it is a great benefit to our horses to have both The Water Walk and the Equine Swimming Pool. Tremendous heat builds up within horses' tendons during exercise and so we try to reduce this by walking the horses through cool water as soon as possible, to reduce the damage this heat can cause to the fibres that constitute the tendon. Also the Swimming Pool is a great way to cool the horses off both after morning exercise and with a swim in the afternoons. At this time of year all the runners have a swim through the pool just before getting on the horsebox for the races. We find this keeps them much cooler during travel and in the lead up to their race.

We have two runners at Stratford tonight. CARBON PRINT has a much better chance than The Racing Post would seem to think. He will love the fast ground and ran on well on the flat at Leicester a few weeks ago. TRIBE makes his debut over fences and although he's by Danehill who is not known for producing steeplechasers, he looks made for this game. His jumping has always been great and as long as he does not find the track too sharp, he will go very close.