Day 3 at Royal Ascot and today we’re going for one ride – Volterra in the Britannia for Kevin Ryan. Hopefully I’ll only need one ride. Volterra was a very Impressive winner back in May and since then Kevin has geared in towards this race. Very ultra-competitive handicap the Royal Ascot, it’s difficult to know…
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Day 2 at the Royal Ascot and we are taking part in the Hunt Cup. I ride Gatekeeper for Charlie Johnston. Looks like he needed his first run of the year back in March. He’s had a long time to freshen up, he runs well fresh. He’s off a career high mark of 100, but…
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Off to Brighton today, six rides. And not a strong card, but very competitive and we’re starting off in a small field with Union Island for Charlie Johnston and the pick of his phone last year. Second, first time out was very good, it’ll be good enough to have a chance of winning, this form…
We’re going for three rides at Wolverhampton’s evening meeting. First one we start off with a 2 year old for James Tate called Never Know and shows a bit of speed in his homework. He’s been working OK but is a little bit green, so I’d expect him to come on for the run. There’s…
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We’re going to Kempton for five rides. And we start off with Legend of Leros in the London Miles series qualifier Mile Handicap. Now he is trying on some headgear Legend of Leros. He’s been somewhat very disappointing this season and although a couple of runs weren’t too bad, he’s not really showing the homework…
Today we’re off to Nottingham for four rides and got one in the maiden for Tom Clover. It’s had two runs. Hasn’t really shown a lot. Lone Piper. And it looks like this possibly could be its third run for a handicap mark, but we’ll see. It’s a pretty OK maiden, it’s not a very…
It’s the second day of the York standing meeting, and I’m going back to York for one more ride, and it’s Al Mootamarid for Marco Botti, in a mile and a half competitive handicap. It’s a small field. He’s the outside of the field, but this horse, his last two runs on the all-weather as…
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We’re off to York today and it’s the start of the Dante meeting at York. Probably one of my favourite racetracks in the country and always a great meeting, great racing, great prize money. I’m going for one ride today and that’s for Aleezdancer in the sprint handicap. I was a winner on him last…
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It’s the start of another week of trials heading towards the Derby. We got the Chester May meeting but I’m going to Kempton in the evening for four rides. Starting off with Falmouth Boy for Tony Carroll. Been running quite consistent in the order lately. Young, lightly raced. Ran really well with me last start…
City Of Troy was an enormous two-year-old. I remember finishing third behind him at the July meeting. He was jogging and still ran us into the ground – you don’t see many horses do that. If he has improved as a three-year-old, or even maintained the same level, then he’ll be pretty hard to beat….
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