Charlie Mann Racing

We worked Quebec and Baltic Storm on the Back of The Hill on Wednesday and they both went nicely.

I went to Newbury Police Station on Thursday to be told that all the charges against me had been dropped and my bail has finished after 9 months and 1 week. The whole experience was extremely stressful and I still can't work out why it took the police and the CPS 9 months to work out that I hadn't done anything. Anyway we all have to move on and I will get the next one vetted a bit better.

We schooled some horses on Thursday and Pickamix was brilliant. We worked quite a few horses on Saturday and we had some people from Red Letter Days. It was quite interesting as their daughter is about to marry the strongest man in Europe. It would be quite nice to have a son in law who could pull a jumbo jet up a runway as he can.

We were meant to have our new horsebox from Equi-Trek on Saturday but once again they found an excuse for it not to turn up. It is getting annoying as I only ordered it as they said they could deliver it quickly.

We had 2 runners on Sunday. Baltic Storm at Plumpton and Quebec at Uttoxeter. Tommy Dowling was having his first ride back from a serious fall in May where he broke most of the bones in his body. All went well and they won very easily although the horse overreached himself quite badly and we are not yet sure how good or bad it is. Quebec was beaten a head and would have put our winning streak on 7 winners from our last 7 runners. We have only got Gowanauthat in this week and he will run on either Friday or Saturday and it would be nice to keep his winning streak up. We have the highest strike rate in this seasons Jumps Table at 35% (Paul Nicholls 25%) long may it last.

We went to St Edwards on Sunday as both my daughter and son go there. William has just started and is a little bit precious as he's boarding and has never been away from home before but he's made lots of friends and is settling in.

It is definitely getting a bit chilly and I think Autumn is on the way.