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Without question the highlight of our week was the win of the progressive Sutton Veny in the 6f 0-70 handicap at Kempton on Sunday. The penny has really dropped with the daughter of Acclamation in recent starts and this was her second win in succession (she is pictured, left, winning last month) and without doubt the most impressive of her three wins to date. Given another well-judged front-running ride by Adam Kirby, the four-year-old flew the stalls and showed excellent early speed to grab the lead from her very wide draw and controlled matters from there on. Despite being strongly challenged from 2f out, she quickened again and was 1
*News Update* Sutton Veny won at 10-1 on Sunday afternoon, recording her third victory for the Sutton Veny Syndicate.
Without doubt the highlight of the last week came on Sunday at Wolverhampton with Ivory Silk producing a career-best effort to finish a close second in a valuable 0-100 handicap over 5f. The Resurrection Partners-owned mare was given a perfect ride by Luke Morris and, with the strong pace playing to her strengths, she came from last to deliver a strong challenge in the final 1f, just being out-stayed by the classy Matsunosuke. The margin of defeat was
We had planned to have many more runners in the last week, but abandoned race meetings proved to be our nemesis and we only ended up having one representative, Bertie Buckle (pictured left) at Wolverhampton on Monday. Burdened with a poor draw, he showed up well for a long way before fading late on. The three-year-old raced a bit more freely than ideal, perhaps as a consequence of being confined to the treadmill for the days leading up to the race, but his action looked better and we would hope he will produce an improved effort on his next start.
Mother Nature has conspired against us again this week. We had plans to run Chief Exec at Lingfield on Wednesday but started to get the feeling that the odds were stacked against us. Indeed the meeting was called off due to a large amount of snow and Chief will have to wait for another day. We are hoping to send Simon Rowlands' King's Miracle to Kempton on Thursday to contest the handicap over a mile there. Simon, all the way up in Derbyshire, has already hinted that he is likely to be a weather-thwarted non-runner and it is looking likely that the meeting will suffer the same fate.