What a game of Rugby this afternoon, Sky + has to be one of the greatest things ever. 41 -16 is a wide margin in test rugby theses days and it would, I suppose have been a better match if it was a cliff hanger. The 1st half was sown up pretty early on, there was then a passage of play when the game could have gone either way before The Lions ran out the easy winners. A fabulous tour and one to remember.
All the horses are well, the Derby Sale horses are now riding around the lunge pen and seem very relaxed, I think the heat helps! They are in fact better behaved than a couple we got out of Goffs.
The children and Sophie all headed off to some show in Cirencester this afternoon, sadly, someone has to stay at home to do the work. We are all going away to Corsica for a week at the end of the month, I am very much looking forward to chilling out. Alice is kindly going to house sit for us and will take full control of everything.
I see Charlie Deustch has turned conditional, why theses good young lads do this so soon in their career is beyond me. He has relatively little race riding experience and is now thrown in the deep end apart from occasionally riding against other conditionals in races confined to theses jockeys only. I hope I am proved wrong but I fear his career will now pan out like so many others - if supported, a big if! he will ride out his 7lb claim, struggle when claiming 5lbs and be lost when only claiming 3lbs. I don't know why trainers force their arms. He can be given the same opportunities as an amateur jockey under rules and still get that all important race riding experience in p2ps at weekends. Some do make it and I hope Charlie is one, I'd be very happy to be proved wrong.
