I had a fantastic day yesterday shooting in Yorkshire, the sun shone on a cold and frosty morning and it was glorious. The birds flew straighter than my powder but I did manage to hold my own and shoot reasonable well.
This morning was back to normal, Sam and I schooled the 3 years olds over the baby fences. I will move them hopefully on Sunday afternoon to the schooling ground and we will get them all going over them on Monday. By Thursday many of them will be ready for the regulation fences. All the others had routine canters. Network Rouge has puss in his hind foot which was released by the farrier this afternoon, he missed todays schooling session.
We backed the Medicean and Bertolini fillies in their stable and both seem to be sweet enough. All the other babies were ridden around the lunge pen. Next week they will move on into the school for a few weeks before heading back to the cold and wet paddocks.
I was delighted to see Harry Fry won the bumper at Newbury yesterday with an English p2p winner. Only to be expected, but not one ounce of promotion for our sport in the Racing Post. I suggested success boxes in the results but was told there was no funding. Poor, I feel!
Another boutique sale of proven horses is held at Newbury tomorrow after racing, I am sure trade will be strong as it was at Brightwells a few weeks ago and the demand for proven horses continues.
Tomorrow, we are taking Major Martin, Billy Biscuit and Knockdhu for an away gallop. The cold snap isn't forecast to be too severe so we may get to run a couple next weekend.
