A busy day, all the horses were exercised. Ben and Sarah Case came to see their Definite Article gelding after which James and I backed a few of the new horses we bought last week. We backed the Darsi, Westerner and, Laveron geldings. I long reined them for 15 or so minuets and then James sat on them in the stable. We will do the same tomorrow and unless there are any unforeseen eventualities we will ride them around the lunge pen too. The Winged Love and Robin des Champs geldings won't be ready for a few more days yet.
Lynda Hounsfield, who is one of the founders of www.racingconnect a new website dedicated to horse racing call to see if I would have a chat about what I do and the industry as a whole. Lynda is trying to make racing more accessible to the man in the street. Anything that can be done to raise the profile of racing and educate people in how the whole business functions has to be a good thing. I then headed off to the vets to get some sedation pastes for turning the new horses out. I like most people have the horses stabled to insure that they have no stable vices for 7 days after the sale.
Christopher Sweeeting rang and asked me to collect a horse that I broke in for him a year ago from his stud. She is a filly by Proclamation and we will get her started back for a while before she goes into training with Kim Bailey. Christopher is a neighbour of mine and someone who I respect. He has supported me from day 1 and has worked hard all his life. He also speaks as he finds which I adhere to too.
