We were extremely pleased with
Red Not Blue who ran at Cheltenham on Saturday over 3m1f. We all thought that he would struggle as the
ground was ‘dead’ and tiring; coupled with the fact that it was a big field
which he doesn’t have a great record of running well in. Saturday’s race was a Class 1 Listed race,
which meant that he was up against some of the best staying handicappers in the
country. Paddy Brennan gave him a
lovely ride from the back, and Red Not Blue ran on past horses right to the
line. Paddy reported that he was too
good for a summer horse and that we should run him at The Cheltenham Festival
in March! Dreams are still alive for us
all!
This week
has been all about owners coming to see their horses. John Powell who runs EPDS Racing came to see all the EPDS horses
on Monday (Loxley Mezile, Homer Run and Money Maid) as well as his own horse
Benozzo Gozzoli. He came with his
friend, Christina, who was visiting from Canada and she seemed quite
comfortable with the horses, as you can see from this photo below. Homer Run
was having a morning of doing some grid work and is pictured here being ridden
by Hannah Gay.
Homer Run
David
Furman came down from Yorkshire on Tuesday to see his horse Zakatal do some
flat work in the indoor school. The
horse hasn’t been with us long and has been doing really well in this type of
work as we have been trying to get him to use himself differently and Zak has
been very willing. However, on Tuesday he was not doing what I was asking him to do and we had to stop and didn't even
attempt to canter. Luckily David had
brought with him his cranial-sacral therapist – Fiona Varian. We stopped work with Zak, popped him back in
his box and Fiona gave him a lengthy treatment. The boys in the meantime went to the pub and left her treating
Zak for a couple of hours. We then took
Zak back to the indoor school and tried him again. He was totally different and much more willing and dropped his
head lovely. Definitely down to the
practitioner and not the fact that the rider had had a pint of Guinness in the
pub! Beccy Smith also came down
yesterday from Brough, up near Hull, to fit Zak his new saddle. This is fantastic for Zak as hopefully he
can build up his back muscles properly with a saddle that is made to measure
for him.
Lastly, Gillian Goldsmith popped
by to visit her horse Already Basking and she is very excited about him
running. And Mrs Bridel came by last
night to visit Headly’s Bridge and she is also looking forward to him running
again soon.
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