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The rain came down, the ground came right and the horse went lame. Just when Saucy Night finally seemed set to get a run after waiting for weeks for softer ground, he knocked himself while schooling and pulled out stiff the day before he was due to run at Towcester. Disappointing though it was, the horse comes first and we weren't prepared to run him when he wasn't 100%. Thankfully, after using our Softwalker over the weekend, Saucy was sound and happy yesterday morning and back cantering (see photo below). Jeremy is well used to the last minute blips that come part and parcel with racehorses and had the foresight to enter the horse at several fixtures this week. The result is that, providing the horse schools well tomorrow, he has an entry in a 2 mile 6 chase at Uttoxeter. He is a course and distance winner there, the ground should be to his liking and he will be one of the top-rated horses in the race. We will offset the additional weight burden that this brings by putting up our conditional jockey Luke Kilgarriff who will take 10llbs off Saucy's back. All things considered we would be hopeful of a decent run.
You may have already read in the press about the latest horse to move to Horses First Racing. Indeed the arrival of Ouninpohja (pictured below right, winning at Newmarket) from Paul Nicholls' yard has interested a lot of people. The horse is incredibly talented, being rated 106 on the flat and 141 over hurdles, however he looks to have fallen out of love with the game recently and we plan to give him a break before bringing him back into work and freshening him up. He will undoubtedly be a challenge but one that we are very much looking forward to.
Saturday could be an exciting day for the yard as our 2 year old Street Cry colt, Street Power, is all set to make his racing debut at Lingfield. The colt has grown up a lot over the last few months and he will definitely come on for the experience. The main objective is for him to enjoy himself. He was bred by one of our long-term supporters, John Hawkins, who has several horses in training with us and has an excellent eye for breeding and pedigrees. John has always though a lot of the horse and will be cheering him home at the weekend. Street Power (pictured below) runs in what looks a very competitive maiden at 1.20. Incidentally his half sister may make her debut soon next week so stay tuned.
The steady influx of new horses is ongoing at Horses First Racing but before I introduce you to the latest arrivals I'd like to show you the wonderful new facilities we have just put in to accommodate them. This week we converted our third barn into a top-class stabling facility, adding 12 new boxes to our capacity. We had horses ready to move into it straight away and the stabling allows us to have our colts more safely stabled. The boxes are very light and spacious and really do look very smart.
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