We have had another good week schooling on Wednesday and Thursday. In the first picture below we have Opera Prince doing his third session of grid work. He is a nice horse who is totally genuine and tries very hard. Robert Dacombe owns Opera Prince. Robert has supported the yard for a very long time and had the pleasure of owning Kavi a few years ago who was very successful for the yard. We are hoping to run Prince on the flat soon, whilst at the same time preparing him for when he goes jumping. He has won and been placed on the flat many times and we are very much looking forward to him running.
Opera Prince
Outside The Box also schooled yesterday and he did his usual round of – I can jump a house job! He has such scope, is very clever and was very impressive again.
Outside The Box
Red Not Blue had his last school before he runs on Saturday at Cheltenham in a big £25,000 handicap hurdle on CH4 racing. I don’t think he has ever carried less than 11st in a handicap and has mostly had to carry top weight or thereabouts of 11st 10/12 so it will be interesting to see how he runs with 10st 8 on his back. It is a hot race, but I have always thought he would like a hill to race up and he is in good form and has done plenty of work. The Plum Merchants who own Red Not Blue are going to be there in force and their dream is to have a winner at Cheltenham. I am sure plenty of fun will be had on Saturday and maybe just a few pints of beer consumed!
Red Not Blue schooling with Luke Kilgarriff on board
