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Owner visits and Royal Ascot
17th June 2008
We were visited by two of our owners yesterday who had come to see how their horses were progressing. Richard Page had a good look at his two year old colt by High Chaparral who is out in the field having a bit of time to mature. The colt has grown a lot over the last few months and will come back into work soon to be prepared for racing later this year. Richard also looked in on Maidanni, who he has a quarter share in with the Resurrection Partners. John Hawkins was here to see his string of horses: Eleanor Eloise, Yvonne Evelyn and Cheonmado, who are all in work and progressing nicely (che in particular was in top form this morning on the gallops). John also seized the opportunity to cast an eye over Street Power, our three year old colt by Street Cry which he bred. The horse has really filled out and matured over the winter and is an exciting prospect - he also worked particularly well this morning. He is pictured below with John, myself, rider Ed Sibbick and Jeremy.
This week for the racing world is of course all about Ascot. We should be in for some great racing over the next few days, kicking off with a fantastic card this afternoon featuring three Group Ones. It isn't every day you can sit back and watch Henry the Navigator, Takeover Target, Darjina, Finsceal Beo, Raven's Pass and many other absolutely top-class horses in action. I will be heading there myself on Thursday along with my wife Oriana and Jeremy and his wife Kerrie who will be experiencing the festival for the first time. I think we may see something special from Henry the Navigator (pictured below winning the 2000 guineas) this afternoon.
There is nothing like a big festival to get you thinking about where some of the horses in the yard may take us. I was out watching the two year olds galloping this morning and couldn't believe how well they are progressing. We have had several people come in to look them over and there has not been a negative comment mentioned about any one of them. We would hope the more forward ones will be ready to make their racecourse debuts very shortly. Yanza our Bahamian Bounty filly went well this morning, Gaborone also looked good, and our Stroll colt did everything asked of him. Jeremy is a big believer in not pushing horses before they are ready and so a couple of our late-developing sorts from the breeze-up sales have been enjoying a holiday before they come back into work. The photo below shows our Proud Citizen and Forestry fillies relaxing and maturing together.
Jeremy is getting ready for his trip to Australia this Friday and has lined up plenty of nice horses to have a look at while he is there. He will be travelling around, visiting stables in Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth for the two weeks he is out there and hopefully arranging to bring a select few back with him.
