A typical day, all the horses had routine canters and are in good health. The penny has started to drop for Deep Trouble, he is trained by Ben Case and came here for some loose schooling. He was prone to coming up from anywhere, he now pops and has a cut at the fences and no more can be asked from him. He will be sent back to his trainer on Monday.
I see that David Redvers bought a yearling for 2.5 million, the trade at the October yearling sales has been incredible and I just can't get my head around the sums of money paid for theses horses. The Green Monkey is the best example, 16.5 million dollars and couldn't get out the way of his own shadow.
I am waiting for a High Chaparral yearling to arrive and it should be here in the next hour or 2.
This evening we had all the horses out of their stables and misted the barn with disinfectant. It is something I do every 10 days and it has proved to be a very good exercise, every trainer in the country should have a machine like mine and carry out this routinely. It is expensive to do and costs me £50.00 each time. However, if the horses remain healthy it is a small price to pay. 1 trach wash is over £60.00, we do trach wash the runners if in any doubt or there has been something in the yard giving a cough. I am always nervous of vets, it is all too easy to fall into the trap of the vets training the horses. If they look well, eat well and no outward signs of ill health the vet should be kept as far away as possible.
