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2nd place for Yanza
26th August 2008
Last Friday saw us back at Bath with Yanza, our Bahamian Bounty two year old, who was lining up for her second start. She ran in the E.B.F. Maiden Fillies' Stakes over five furlongs and turned in a very good performance under a nice ride from David Probert to come second out of a field of 16. The racing Post commented “[Yanza] showed good tactical pace against the inside rail from a decent draw and stepped up considerably on her debut form. She should be able to win a similar event”. The filly (pictured working at home) has again come out of her race well and should be back out in the next couple of weeks when we hope she will continue to improve and hopefully go one better.
Ravenna to make debut
19th August 2008
Anyone living in, or visiting, the UK in August will have had reason to check that we have not flipped into the Southern Hemisphere and it is not in fact deep winter. Today the magnificent York fixture loses it's first day and the rest of the Ebor meeting hangs, or drowns, in the balance. This is not so much Global Warming as Global Raining and there is no end in sight as the week ahead is wet and windy.
An encouraging debut
12th August 2008
We have said in previous weeks how excited we are about our current crop of two year olds and last Thursday saw the first one making her racecourse debut. Yanza (Bahamian Bounty x Locharia) lined up over five and a half furlongs at Bath and despite being slow to break and very badly hampered, ran on bravely to finish 4th. Before the race we heard that both Via Mia (3rd) and Wake Me Now (2nd) were highly thought of by their trainers and Rioliina (1st) looked like a very nice animal from her previous run, so for us to get 4th after having such bad luck in running was very encouraging. The filly showed a lot of early speed and was going as well as anything bar the winner when she got squeezed right back into last place. At that point a lot of fillies on their debut would have called it a day but Yanza came again and showed good heart. There was a Stewards Enquiry into the interference but the placings were unchanged as it was considered to be accidental. Her jockey thought he'd have been second without the interference and we very much look forward to her next run, possibly back at Bath on the 22nd, as she has come out of the race in very good order (she is pictured galloping this morning).
Yanza makes her debut
05th August 2008
It will be good to see the first of our unraced two year olds make her racecourse debut this week. Yanza, a bay filly by Bahmian Bounty, heads to Bath on Thursday to run in the 6.25, which is just over five and a half furlongs. The ground is a bit of a concern as we wouldn't want too much of a cut in it for the filly's first outing, so we're hoping it can dry out a bit after all the recent rain. Yanza (pictured using the Seawalker after work) has had racecourse gallops at both Salisbury and Kempton but she is a quirky filly and it will be interesting to see how she handles the excitement of a race day. Also running this week is Cheonmado, John Hawkins' four year old. We'd like him to run over 7 furlongs at Lingfield on the Saturday however there is a chance he could be balloted out and we may have to run him over six there on the Friday.