This week we made the decision to retire stable stalwart Bernardo O’Reilly seven years to the day of his debut victory at Lingfield Park. Bought for only £10k at the DBS Premier Yearling Sales he won 7 of his 56 races giving all of those involved great enjoyment. He’ll see out the remainder of his […]
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No winners last week but a couple of nice seasonal debut runs after long lay offs – firstly by Naomi Lapaglia yesterday in Deauville, one of my favourite tracks in the world and always a great day out. A cracking ride from a poor draw by the GOAT Ryan Moore, she just lost out in
… Everything you want’s a dream away. Apologies for the delay in this week’s blog …. Glastonbury recovery taking place – What a few days! Five runners from Sefton Lodge last week and whilst unfortunately no winner all of them finished in the money. A couple of second places and a third spot for debutant
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A great time at the Royal Ascot meeting up with many old and new friends was had last week – but how hard is it to win there? Fortunate to have won a race previously in 2017 with Rajasinghe (and still the track record holder) we went with what I felt was our strongest team
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Good Good Good (George Boughey) lived up to her name on debut at Yarmouth last Thursday and delivered an eye catching performance under Billy Loughnane for our highlight of the week. Having dwelt at the start she moved effortlessly from last to first in a matter of strides and definitely looks like one to keep
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Just the six runners from Sefton Lodge last week and little to shout about other than Run Boy Run’s pleasing second at Haydock on Thursday. All quiet on the runners front until the end of this week where Candy and Pjanoo have entries at Sandown on Friday. Pjanoo also holding a further entry at the
A quiet one on the racing front all around for us last week with just the one runner Wonderwall, finishing with another third this time at Cartmel on his second start for Peter and Mickey Bowen. Hopefully he’ll go even closer next time out. Richard and the team at Sefton Lodge remain focused on Royal
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A relatively uneventful time at Sefton Lodge in terms of runners this week and last has afforded me the time to shoot off and get some much-needed pre-Ascot sun on my back! Lots of time to think, lots of time to plan and some more great names already registered for the Class of ‘25. With
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‘Yah Mo Be There’ – made an impressive debut at York on Thursday confirming all of our thoughts that this could be a ‘proper horse’. He travelled comfortably under Hollie Doyle throughout, quickened impressively between horses and signs of greenness saw him get caught by the Karl Burke-trained Clipper Horse ‘Andesite’ which is obviously a
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Just the three runners last week from Sefton Lodge and we had to wait until yesterday to get on the scoresheet for the month of May. A super bit of placing by Richard Spencer saw Cross The Tracks go off the 5/4 favourite and victory never looked out of the question under a dominant ride
