WE had our 20th winner of the season at Uttoxeter on Friday courtesy of Vision De Maine getting off the mark under rules on chasing debut under Jack Tudor, writes DAVID PIPE.
Our five-year-old is a lovely big old-fashioned chasing type who made a pleasing debut last season in a bumper at Sedgefield behind a useful horse.We will see what the handicapper does to him this week but I hope there is plenty of progress.
We did not have that many other runners last week but Jurancon made his seasonal reappearance and hurdling debut at Worcester.
The betting suggested that it was a two horse race before hand and so it proved and unfortunately, we just came out worse of a close battle.
While obviously a little disappointed initially, on reflection there is a lot of improvement to come from Jurancon from that run.
He has come out of the race well and while there are no immediate targets, he will run in another novice hurdle in due course and he is a horse very much to follow this winter.
Our first runners this week will be at local track at Exeter. Keppage and Mr Tambourine Man both run in the 2m7f handicap hurdle.
While it is sometimes a shame to run horses in the same race, it is also sometimes difficult to find other suitable races!
Both horses like better ground and despite what seems to have been a very wet couple of weeks their ground remains good to soft, good in places with dry days now forecast.
Missy Mole holds an entry at Ludlow on Thursday while Cheltenham’s October meeting gets underway on Friday.
We have three entries, which include American Sniper and Royal Mer and Jilaijone who will be making their seasonal reappearances.
While there was not much high profile jumps racing last weekend things ramp up a gear this time around with action at Cheltenham, Kelso, Aintree and Wincanton.
Keep checking the Daily News on the website for the latest news on the stable runners.
This week there are sales at Doncaster which includes the dispersal of horses from the Shark Hanlon yard.
There is also Online sales later in the week and the Horses in Training Sales next week in Newmarket so there is plenty of bedtime reading going on looking through all the horses!
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Oisin Murphy was champion jockey while Sean D Bowen came out on top in the tight apprentice battle.
Aidan O’Brien was champion trainer with an impressive £8 million + in prize money won. He did this from just 31 winners from only 153 runners.
Andrew Balding finished in second place having had 153 winners from just under 1000 runners and earning just under £5 million in prize money, while Godolphin were champion owners.
It is not long now until, staff member Amy Clark will be taking part in the Keagan Kirkby Memorial Charity race at Wincanton on Sunday 27th October.
She will be riding Kintaro in the 1 mile flat race and would love any donations if you are able to support.
She has raised just under £2,000 and we would love to help get her to this total if we can using the link below: https://racingwelfare.enthuse.com/pf/amy-clark