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Had a great day at Kelso; dog behaved well and the weather was kind to us. Spent most of the afternoon chatting [as usual] to Brian the first aid guy who we haven’t seen for ages so we had a lot of gossip to catch up on! Think it was the day when Aidan Coleman finally rode a winner at every track, but, being where we were down by the fences we missed most of what was going on. Have to say that, I know they’ve done a lot of work at the track but I absolutely loved it as it was before so I felt really sad. There was another lovely lady working at the track who adored my dog; nipped to the loo and, even though she was with Mike Winnie got a bit upset and when I returned she had several people comforting her. Was told that one day there was a dog running loose on the track and when the clerk of the course phoned the staff up to sort it out the reply was ‘err; it’s your dog..’ You can’t beat Kelso imo but it will be a while before we’re back there. Pleased that Adam Nicol is fit to ride again; I’ll never forget that great front running ride on Purple Harry a while back. I’d assume he’ll be riding at Wetherby but we can’t go to Charlie Hall day this year because of the dog; really sad that he did so much work with Lady Buttons but missed out on her late season achievements.
I didn’t get down to the fences as I was catching up with my ‘rooftopper’ mates who I hadn’t seen since May!
If you spotted a lone figure walking the course an hour befire racing then that was me. Soft ground was an accurate description but it does get a bit squishy down the back straight on the hurdles course. One or two to take forward this season and I’ll update my jumps thread in the next couple of days.
Typing this from our York hotel after an excellent two days racing on the Knavesmire. I was picking fancy priced winners like sweeties on the first day!
I will do a full report when I get back home, but one serious animal to note is HAMISH who hosed up in a 1m 6f 3yo handicap. This one looks a cup horse for Haggas with another winter behind him.
Hamish’s half-brother CONVICT ran a fair second on Friday and should strengthen up over the winter.
More to follow…
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