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Desert Quest wins over fences
25th March 2008
Another winner last week as we notched up our first National Hunt winner when Desert Quest (pictured) won a novice chase at Ludlow on Thursday. The horse jumped well throughout and went on to win by a length and a half under Liam Heard from City Affair. Never one to do more than he has to, the horse came home in excellent order and the race doesn't appear to have taken much out of him. His next engagement is likely to be at Aintree on Grand National day in the £125,000 Grade 1 Novice Chase over 2 miles. He's a class horse and deserves his chance at a big prize.
A mixture of runners
18th March 2008
*NEWS UPDATE* Desert Quest wins his novice chase at Ludlow. Full story next Tuesday.
We are sending out a real mixture of horses this week, running in everything from a chase to a bumper, over hurdles and over 5 furlongs and also have a hurdler and a miler thrown into the mix. First up is hopefully Desert Quest who just needs the ground at Ludlow to carry on drying out (he only acts on good ground) to enable him to run on Thursday. The horse continues to go well at home (he is pictured schooling well under jockey Luke Kilgarriff this week) and we'd be hopeful of a good performance from him. Tomorrow Shatter Resistant makes his debut for the yard in a five furlong contest at Kempton Park. The race is at 18.20 and unfortunately Shatter has drawn the outside stall, which in a small field will give him a slight disadvantage. On the plus side the horse is looking well and has come back from his recent break looking strong. Liam Jones takes the ride and it would be great if he could follow up from his win on Chief Exec with another good result for the yard.
Some more good runs
11th March 2008
Following on from Chief Exec's effortless win two weeks ago (see photo) we have had another good week of positive runs. The Chief headed back to Wolverhampton last Friday night to see if he could provide back to back wins. Although he wasn't first past the post this time he did run a decent fourth under his 7llb penalty, coming from off the pace and showing his turn of foot in the home straight. Although the handicapper has gone after him following his impressive victory, he remains a horse that we can have some fun with and he may well run on turf in the summer. For more details on buying a share in Chief Exec please see the marketplace.
Chief Exec storms home
04th March 2008
Chief Exec stormed home at Wolverhampton last Friday in what had looked to be a competitive handicap, to win easily by two and a half lengths. It is over two years since the horse's last win and Jeremy's decision to run him in blinkers on only his 3rd start for us certainly played a large part in his success. The Racing Post commented: 'The first-time blinkers certainly brought about plenty of improvement from Chief Exec, who showed a smart turn of foot to settle this in a matter of strides. Now that connections have found the key to him, he should continue to pay his way'. The Chief, as he is known in the yard, may well run again this Friday - the 7th over course and distance. If you would like to get involved with this horse he is available for syndication. For more information on him please see the marketplace.