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I was told that he had point to pointers, but this seems to be a more serious venture.
If I am correct he was with Sir Michael Stoute at one time so he should certainly know a thing or two about training.
As the Godolphin operation produces a lot of well bred animals that fail to live up to their billing, it may give an outlet for some of the animals. It will be intriguing to see how it develops.I’ve seen plenty of John’s runners between the flags since he first appeared on the Pointing scene at the start of the 2009-10 season, as he campaigns them mostly around the East Anglia courses which host of many of the early meetings (e.g. Cottenham) that I can get to before the busy period of the season forces me elsewhere.
He can certainly train, and he had at least one potentially useful prospect on his hands during his first season in multiple winner Lotta Presents. That one, however, met a sad end in the Intermediate Final on Cheltenham’s 2010 hunter chase evening.
I gather he has around 20 in at present; ostensibly there is a 50-50 split between Rules and Pointing horses, though some of those which have been seen out over hurdles in the last few days may yet be headed off back Pointing after October 31st (something like The Rodeo Clown would seem as likely a candidate as any).
The appeal of being able to run at Cottenham on November 27th, the first day of the new season, with a race-fitness edge over horses that haven’t had a competitive outing as recently as four weeks earlier, is not hard to discern. Then again, that same fixture can attract animals that can deliver when fresh, from the Douglas family’s Big Moment to the latest Angela and William Rucker project to Alan Hill’s "milk bottle horse" (believed this year to be ex-McCain hurdler Money Tree), so it’s no given that Ferguson is going to clean up at that Cambridgeshire curtain-raised by any stretch of the imagination!
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Noted, Martin!
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Despite previous successes elsewhere hee must have gotten quite a buzz from his recent successes under rules. It’s great to see a small trainer doing really well
Nice to see he is using an amateur rider as well.
Reminds me of the old days when Norman Dalgetty from the borders had a few hand picked horses that won more than their fair share of races.
Following these small trainers can be very fruitful.
Jack Quinlan is good friends with John Ferguson’s son I believe – he’s also a very very good jockey as shown on more than one occasion this season.
Great to see him doing well and seeing The Rodeo Clown under rules – Neil King is another doing well with a similar profile, ex-East Anglia P2P trainer now doing well with his rules horses, worth looking out for NK’s Ballyvoneen who ran in Irish P2P’s last year, hopefully NK can find the key to winning with him since nobody over there could! lol
Reminds me of the old days when Norman Dalgetty from the borders had a few hand picked horses that won more than their fair share of races.
Was that the same Dalgetty clan responsible for good old Davy Blake? He seemed to be a permanent fixture at the Kelsos of this world for what felt like an age.
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