We worked quite a few horses last Wednesday, there are a couple of horses on their way back from wind operations and various other ailments. But it shouldn't be long now till we can get a few back on the racecourse.
I took my cat Jerry to the vets to have a hair cut and was given a bill for £164 which is probably more than Katya spends on her hair in London!
We schooled a few horses on Thursday and we had James Davies and Gavin Sheehan in. Everything jumped well. Katya then drove myself and Johnny Portman to London as it was the National Trainers Federation AGM. We were all introduced to Nick Rust who is the new chairman of the BHA. Although we have seen it before I was quite impressed with him even though he is an ex bookmaker. We then went to Harry Holcrofts exhibition and saw some very nice paintings.
We had to take Cody Wyoming out of Newbury on Friday as he had a sore foot but we ran Portmonarch up at Doncaster. Unfortunately he was fatally injured. It is always sad when you lose a horse and I don't think we have had a fatality on course for about five years.
We had a very busy day on Saturday, we had four Red Letter Days in. We worked Nimbus Gale, Gowanauthat and Native Explorer together and all three went very well. We drove off to Newbury where we had taken the Highclere box for the day. We invited nearly fifty people and it all went really well.
We ran Seventh Sky in the Greatwood Gold Cup and although he finished fourth he ran a little bit flat. Verano ran a nice race and he finished sixth but will come on a great deal for the run. Cody Wyoming didn't run as well as expected but it has turned out he probably hasn't got over the infection that he had. I was disappointed with Murray Mount in a bumper up at Doncaster and just think we will have to put a line through it. Expedite ran in his bumper and I think got stuck in the ground, we will see how he comes out of the race before we make a decision as to what to do with him. Lambro had a nice spin round in the Charity race in preparation to the Grand Military Gold Cup on Friday.
We got up very early on Sunday morning and took Lord Of House and Cedre Bleu to Newbury Racecourse for a gallop round. They both seemed to enjoy it and should come on along for it.
John and Pam Walsh popped in to see Sands Cove and Lambro on Sunday. We had drinks at Evelyn Fabers and I must say the conservatory I put on the side of his house works really well. We then had a very nice lunch at home and watched Ireland beat England in the rugby.
On Monday we had Paul Mott come down to watch Sureness school with Gavin Sheehan on board. She jumped really well and will make a lovely novice chaser. We had lunch in The George later on and in the evening we had a Lambourn Trainers Association meeting at Oaksey House, normally nobody ever turns up so it was extraordinary that we had nineteen trainers there and not enough chairs for everyone to sit down on, which gives us all a lot of optimism. I was then on the panel for a Cheltenham Preview night at the Royal Oak at Bishopstone. Gavin Sheehan and Nick Deacon were also answering questions so I hope we gave everybody a few winners for next week. It is only a week now till Cheltenham and there is a lot of pressure on the trainers with fancied runners and I hope they all get their horses there in one piece.
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