Horses First Racing
Shahwardi and Medicean Man are set to run tomorrow at Salisbury and Wolverhampton respectively. Shawardi makes the step up to 1 mile 6 under Steve Drowne in a very competitive looking six-runner race, due off at 5.30. Medicean Man runs later in the evening, at 8.20 under Jimmy Quinn. On Friday we have Pink Cat, owned by The Ferrule Kitty, making her debut for the yard at Kempton and Ivory Silk goes to Lingfield for the Resurrection Partners.
Prince Of Dance looks to be all set to make his debut for the yard at Goodwood tomorrow. The Danehill Dancer colt (pictured below) will line up in the Group 3 Supreme Stakes at 3.55 under Steve Drowne. We took the decision not to run him at York last weekend, as he needs a bit of cut in the ground and wasn't going to get it. With tomorrow's track soft at the moment, we are all hoping for a big run from the horse.
Chief Exec and New Leyf both ran very good races this week, both coming third. Chief, usually happy to follow the field and then come with a late run over seven furlongs, showed what the wonders of a break can do when he flew the stalls and led over six at Lingfield. He looked like he might win, before just being passed close to home. It was lovely to see the old boy enjoying himself and hopefully there are races to be won with him this year. New Leyf ran very well under Jamie Spencer yesterday at Newmarket, just finding two too good. He will be winning again soon.
Tomorrow Stuart and Kate Dobb's Chief Exec makes his return from a break and heads to Lingfield. The eight-year-old gelding (pictured below) was Jeremy's first UK winner and is a firm favourite at the yard. After having a few months off, he will no doubt come on for tomorrow's run but it is good to have him back in action.
We have got a a fairly busy second half to this week. This morning we met Steve Drowne at Kempton to gallop four unraced horses and give them a look at the track. Tomorrow we got to Lingfield and then Friday we head to Ffos Las with Denton (who will be bidding for another hat-trick under Simon Pearce) and Newmarket with New Leyf and Mrs Penny. On Saturday Sutton Veny could go to Newmarket and Sunday could see Prince Of Dance make his debut for the yard, after having to miss his York engagement last week due to a lack of rain. Ground permitting, he is set to line up in te Group 3 at Goodwood.
We were looking forward to running New Leyf at Chepstow tomorrow evening but with that meeting being called off due to ground damage, our next runner will be Prince Of Dance on Friday. The lovely Danehill Dancer colt (pictured below) has found himself in a hot-looking listed race at York but hopefully the ground will have the cut in it that he needs and he will run a big race. Neil Callan takes the ride for Five Horses Racing.
Saturday is a very busy day for us. Medicean Man, Thaliwarru and Hedonist all go to Ripon. Rahya Cass runs at Chester and Flying Silks looks set to line up at Bath, providing there is sufficient rain.
Sutton Veny ran her usual gutsy race on Saturday when she contested the Greys Race at Newmarket under Steve Drowne (pictured below riding Delaware Dancer in a gallop at Kempton last week). The brave grey battled home in the heavy conditions (which were unsuitable for her), under top weight to finish fifth, beaten just over a length. She was giving best part of two stone to the winner and runner up and we were all delighted with her. It is a shame that the conditions turned wet so quickly but after praying for a bit of rain for the last month, we shouldn't complain too loudly.
Today Delaware Dancer makes her debut for her owners at Wolverhampton. Jeremy likes the Danehill Dancer filly and it is great to get her to the track. Also running there is Ivory Silk, who is making her return from a break. She is in good form and goes well fresh, although she does look up against it with her current handicap mark.
We are taking advantage of having a quiet week in terms of racing (our next runners are Sutton Veny and Shahwardi on Saturday) by spending a couple of mornings taking horses to Kempton for racecourse gallops. Today we took nine to be galloped by Steve Drowne and Simon Pearce. All went well, with Medicean Man and Prince Of Dance working very nicely. We will head back to Kempton on Thursday morning with more horses to gallop. The photo, below, shows Simon on Ivory Silk and Steve on Rahya Cass.
Tomorrow we are looking forward to a visit from Monty Roberts, who is coming to the farm to do some work with a couple of horses.
