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The colder weather arrived with a bang this morning with our first major frost of the season. It served as a reminder that there are now very few flat turf meetings left this year but we
Last Friday saw two very encouraging debut performances from Flying Silks and Django Reinhardt, when both horses ran very well at Kempton. Flying Silks especially caught the eye, running on strongly from his bad draw. The Racing Post commented "The two newcomers from the Gask yard both showed ability. Flying Silks had the worst draw and ended up racing widest in the straight, but he was keeping on at the finish, and so too was Django Reinhardt, who started slowly". Both of the two year olds will have learned a lot from the experience and will no doubt come on for it. Django Reinhardt (pictured, far side, galloping with Die Haard) still has a fair bit of maturing to do and will be switched off now until next season. Flying Silks may have one more run before we do the same with him. They are both looking like nice three year old prospects.
Recently we have been talking mainly about our two year olds but this week it was two of the old-timers who put in nice runs. On Sunday afternoon [b]John Hawkins
We are sending out a wide range of horses this week, starting with Remember Ramon at Great Leighs on Thursday. Chris Catlin takes the ride on the five year old who runs over one mile two in the handicap at 9.20. The gelding (pictured galloping at home) has come back in good form from his recent race at Kempton and that run combined with the extra two furlongs should hopefully produce a good effort from him.