All the horses stayed on the wood-chip this morning and we loose schooled a couple. I fear the ground will go against us at Exeter for Cavite Epsilon, but we will have to wait and see.
Hopstrings is in at Cheltenham and Southwell next week, I will also be entering her for the mares novice hurdle at Chepstow the following week.
Henry Daly marked our card and he was bang on the money by all reports, the ground was apparently very dead and I'm pleased we didn't have a wasted trip. Sam got a horrendous fall and he tells me he himself bought 2 other horses down. Thankfully he is fine and lives to fight another day.
Saint Charles was stopped in his tracks when making a forward move and had to be switched out very wide by which time his race was over. He has now been on the go for just short of a year and it s a long journey to Ayr for a 4 year old who's been in training 11 months. Mr Henderson will know more about that than me and I am sure today's run was more to get some experience into him on safe ground before he heads to Ireland for a well deserved break. As anyone with any knowledge of dealing with young horses will know it can take horses 4 sometimes 5 runs before they even know what is expected of them. Max Ward is a prime example. He's had 5 runs and was still very green when winning at Taunton by 20 lengths earlier in the week. Sadly, there are many ignorant people in the p2p fraternity who think they are experts when in fact all they do is confirm their ignorance when commenting on something they understand little or nothing about. We will all see more of Saint Charles.
