With no racing in England last week, we sent a raiding party north of the border to Kelso and a lorry across the channel to France as well. Chapmanshype put in a mightily impressive performance ...
Pisgah Pike added another winner to the seasonal tally when bolting up in a maiden hurdle at Hexham last week. He had been placed in a bumper and a novice hurdle last season, but wasn’t qu...
I was thrilled to see College Oak and Chapmanshype both win last week, in what was our first busy week on the track this summer. However, we had an emotional rollercoaster as Sovereign Duke look...
We’ve only had three runners so far this month, and two of them have hit the crossbar and one looked to be running a big race when slipping up on the final turn for home – all slightly fru...
I was pleased to get onto the scoresheet early into the new season, but July was a slightly frustrating month with five 2nds, however it shows our small summer team are in good form. Some Day S...
I was thrilled to get onto the scoresheet on the second day of the new NH season when Timoshenko won on hurdling debut at Uttoxeter on Monday, and with a couple of 2nds recently as well it shows the s...
Our first runner of the 2020/21 National Hunt season was inches away from being our first winner of the season. I was delighted that Donnie Azoff ran so well on his racecourse debut to be 2nd in...
In what has been a tricky and challenging few months for us all, I am thrilled that our owners and staff have all been wonderful during this period, but now we are all itching to get back racing again...
It’s wonderful to have the flat racing back into full swing now, and as there is no jump racing until 1st July, we thought we may as well have a couple of runners at Royal Ascot this week. ...
I think we were all thrilled to see the resumption of flat racing last week, and the light is appearing at the end of the tunnel for jumping as well as the fixture list has been finalised for July and...
I am delighted to hear the news that the Government has agreed that racing can resume behind closed doors, with the first meeting being at Newcastle tomorrow (1st June). Obviously the protocols ...
Flat racing continues to plan for resumption on Monday 1 June, in line with the UK Government’s provisional timetable for the return of sport behind closed doors. Whilst, the provisional f...
As I'm sure you've all seen by now but the government has planned for sport to resume in its 2nd phase of lifting the current lockdown measures, and that unfortunately includes racing. So flat racing ...
The Government is keeping strict control of the messaging about resumption of sport, and their policy will be influenced mainly by public health authorities. However, it is looking likely that f...
The BHA announced this week that they have delayed the return of racing indefinitely due to the extended ‘lockdown’ period. However, the plan is for flat racing to resume once the lo...
I think every trainer is handling this lockdown period in a slightly different way. Thankfully as the weather has been kind, we’ve turned all of our winter horses and babies out now and ou...
In the light of the coronavirus outbreak and the shutdown of jump racing till July, we have dramatically scaled back activities here at Folly House in order to look after our owners, our staff, as wel...
After a week of no racing, I thought you all might like to know how life is at Folly House.....We have been advised that we should continue training the horses as normally as we can, whilst observing ...
Despite the season ending 6 weeks early, I am thrilled that once again we have bettered our previous best season to end on 46 winners (from our 50-horse yard) with a total of just shy of £380,00...
We were thrilled to be a small part in the making of this great documentary which BetVictor produced when seeking to understand what it takes to make a winner...... 18+ begambleaware.org https:...
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