30th Oct

pippa666 ♦ October 30, 2023

Todays runners are Heritier De Sivola & Peripeteia. Heritier De Sivola is heading to Huntingdon for his 2nd run of the season. He will have tightened up nicely for his last run at Carlisle a few weeks ago and hopefully blew away the cobwebs for today, ridden by Joe Williamson for owner Grant Nicolson. Peripeteia goes to Newcastle for owners RedHotGardogs, looking for a repeat performance under Robert Havlin following a nice win at Wolves with him 3 weeks ago. Best of luck to all & safe return!

Heritier DeSivola

Its been a bit wet and bleak lately, but we have been giving the horses a go round the fields to keep them thinking and enjoying their work…….

Yesterday we had Top Ville Ben at Aintree and he unfortunately dived at a fence after a promising front running start. He isn’t immune to the odd bit of crazyness t his fences, but Sean reported that the shadow at the fence was the issue and it was subsequently omitted in the following races. Ben is a little stiff as would be expected today, but is none the worse after what looked like a nasty fall and will come back fighting soon!

Top Ville jumping well early on yesterday above, and glad to see him happily galloping home below after his nasty looking fall (Pics courtesy of Jutal Roxy)

Our latest few winners were TOMMY TIME last Sunday at Sedgefield following up his close 2nd last time here earlier in the month to go one better this time in the maiden hurdle with Sean Quinlan on board for owner Andrew Bradshaw.

We also had ZWICKY adding another win to his tally, this time at Carlisle in a H’cap hurdle on Thursday with a confident hold up ride by Sean Quinlan. This brings this 6yr old by Sixties Icon to 3 wins, a great result for Zwicky as his owners first homebred! Well done & congrats to owner/breeders Philip & Nicola Tyler, the names behind our longstanding sponsor Topspec.

Merlin News!

Merlin has had the best showing season ever and he has now been nominated for an award. We’d love your support! ( link attached ) We are honoured that Merlin has been shortlisted for Coloured Horse/ Pony of the year at the prestigious Annual Showing World Awards. He is up there with some fantastic coloureds So many of you have followed his career from being a foal and sent us such lovely messages, if you would like to click the link you can vote for him ( it’s free) and you will also get to choose some others! You may not be familiar with the names but Lucy Glover ( LG Showteam) is nominated for her category and she produces both Merlin and ‘Morning Sunflower’ for the show hunter ponies . Please remember Merlin’s show name is Monivea Black Magic! Happy voting and thankyou so much https://www.showingworldonline.co.uk/awards/seib-awards-vote