Schooling Fences & Hurdles

Andy Ross and his friend, Tim Holt, came to re-stuff our fences for the new season and a very good job he has done too.  Andy works on the fences at a lot of the point-to-point courses in the West Country and has been well known for doing so for some time now.  He also told me about his successes as a Greyhound trainer and how he has managed to improve some of the dogs from other trainers.  After speaking with him I found out that there are similarities with the training of horses; he said he keeps his dogs happy and relaxed, varies their work, feeds them well, worms them regularly and takes close attention to their electrolyte levels.  Tim Holt also does racecourse photography so we look forward to some pictures of some winners in the West Country!

As you can see from the picture below, the open ditch is looking quite a lot better!  It is certainly an expensive job re-stuffing the fences as the birch costs £5 per bundle and I reckon each fence took over 70 bundles and that’s before we paid Mr Ross & Co for their couple of days’ work – I might well have to start working in the pub at nights!  It certainly is money well spent though, ironing out any jumping problems we might have at home and replicating what they will see on the track.

To contact Andrew Ross for your fences etc., please visit his website: www.racejumps.co.uk

The re-stuffed open ditch