Those of you who read my blog will know that Attheraces were here doing a yard profile. It was a great experience and Robert Cooper is very easy to work with, he has a great ability of making one feel at ease. We spent the morning filming different services that I offer. I'd been wanting to girth a horse since the middle of last week and thought that I would wait until the camera was rolling. The filly delivered and had a real good buck and a kick before accepting the girth and carrying on with her work as if nothing had happened. We filmed 2 horses working upsides, Kiss Me Twice who will be ready to run within 2/3 weeks if we get some rain and Cavite Gamma, Cavite Gamma has strengthen up considerably over the summer and is a smashing horse. He'll run in a Pt-Pt in November before heading to the Cheltenham Sale 2 weeks later. Both horses worked very well. Cavite Eta gave a faultless display of loose schooling.
Its been a tough time trying to find a real good lad to come and work in the yard and take the rides in the point to points. Thankfully my scout (Micheal Talland) in Irealnd has potenially found me a lad. His name is Declan Leavy, he comes with glowing reports having been champion jockey for 2 years in the pony racing. He's ridden over 200 winners and has worked for Adien O'Brien and Tony Martin in Irealnd. Its very exciting for us both. He's desperate to get a chance to make a name for himself and we desperatly need another real good rider in the yard. I find the lack of young lads coming into the industry very worrying. Lets hope it all works out for both of us. He arrives on Monday night for a weeks trial. It can be very rewarding helping young lads get going.
We are very busy at the moment and I hope the yard is full to bursting by the end of next weeks yearling sales in Ireland
