Wednesday, 14 March 2012

14th March 2012

Beckhani ran a great race to finish 2nd and sadly met a good one of Longsdon's , Beckhani gave him 13 lbs and was beaten 8 lengths. I have various bloodstock agents visiting this week so unless an offer is made he'll go to the Cheltenham sales on 18th April.

Sam is in tomorrow and we'll school the weekends runners, Chiquilline, Trouble Digger and the Midnight Legend 4 year old.

David Black and Carmel are staying for a few days and going to Cheltenham tomorrow to support the charity race being run in aid of Cancer Research. Wendy Normile is riding in it on one of JP McManus horses. Wendy's brother Alan died of cancer aged 36. I knew Alan very well when we all worked in Lambourn together and it's very sad. Alan was married to Lucy Normile who continues to train in Perthshire. I am told Wendy has raised just under 25,000 euros. This is an incredible amount of money to raise for charity and I hope she has a good ride in the race, or even better wins.