Hopstrings jumped 6 hurdles with Sam Twiston-Davis and did it nicely, he's happy with her and hopefully will be free to ride her at Worcester a week on Wednesday.
We took the Kalanisi gelding into the lunge pen, horse and jockey stayed together. Fergal O'Brien bought a horse over to pop around the loose school otherwise all the others had quiet canters.
This afternoon I watched a bit of Ascot and was surprised how weak Joseph O'Brien is when a horse was coming back underneath him. He is certainly a top class jockey but is nowhere near the finished article. I looked stylish when horses were running for me but when push came to shove it is a different matter and that is when the men stand out from the boys. Richard Hughes and Ryan Moore are in a different league. Quite who Channel 4 have employed on their fashion coverage I do not know, however she fits in well with all the other maroons that they have employed.
This afternoon I was knapsack spraying, I think Sophie's Sweet Peas may have had there day. I'm not too hot on spotting the difference between weeds and plants!
