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Wildcard racing August 2012

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August has been a very good month….  An exciting entry in the Ayr Bronze cup and 2 winners……

 Henry Bee

 Had the whole month off to get over his back strain… he is now well in to preparations for the Ayr Racing festival…. All being well he will run in the bronze cup, he will go straight to Ayr on 22nd of September. To say we have happy owners is an understatement…. Hopefully ground and pace in the race will be in his favour and he runs a big one

 Siberian Belle

 She finally became belle of the ball… winning an apprentice race in the capable hands of Laura Barry….. Laura who used to look after Belle was so pleased even though Belle made it as hard as possible for her. It’s been a long time coming but Belle Pulled out just enough without really trying to win…. We have entered everywhere since but races are hard to get in to at her level but reports are very good and we expect her to come on for the run and reward her owner’s patience… Nice comment on Attheraces as she passed the line another winner in the wildcard racing Colours….. nice to be noticed

 Somethingboutmary

 Just 1 start and 1 win in August… All the way to Lingfield, put in to the stalls buy Gary witheford, led all way …. Job done. Julie Burke rode her at Lingfield and gave her a great ride, Turning for home the pack look to be closing but a quick slap turned on the burners and off she went to win a shade cosy….. From the reports at home she is working very well, just putting all the pieces of the puzzle together for the finished article

 Bunce

 New addition this month to wildcard racing….. A bargain at just £6k he is in training with David O ‘Mera….. After a 10 week layoff he has ran twice in 3 days finishing 5th on both occasions. David id very happy with him and now knows what he has to work with…. It won’t be long till he adds to wildcard racings impressive strike rate for 2012…..

 Woolfall sovereign

 Back in work now after having part of his hoof removed….. Can’t wait to get him back

 In other news

 Wildcard racing attended the malton open day…  a great success with plenty of info handed out and new owners brought in…..i love attending days like that showing people what we have to offer… A friendly service, a great strike rate, top trainers and great horses….. it’s been an amazing year to date and I am looking forward to the last few months…..

 Siberian belle is my horse to watch….. Going very much in the right direction….

Henry Bee wins at Beverley 07/07/12

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Henry Bee finally did it… finally got his head in front. Its been long overdue and with a few very good efforts behind him. After his last few runs we have had to make the pace, Richard decided to put him in a 5F race at Beverley, after a lot of questions asked by syndicate members over the distance, the boss had convinced me that he had the speed, Beverley is a stiff 5f and with the soft ground we were hopeful of a big run…. and big is what we got.

we had to wait till last race of the day to see Henry run, the Musley bank team had got him looking a million dollars, wining best turned out was just the start of it…A late jockey change saw Freddie Tylicki make his debut for WRS and what a way to start…. On paper there were 2 horses to beat, Tim easterbys and Brian Smarts….. I had been told that smarts was fancied and it went of Fav in end….

After a few pics in the parade ring Henry Cantered to post, we took our place in the stand ready to shout him home….. Henry had been placed in 7 out of 10 runs and it was now his time to shine… Gates opened henry was out and rolling from a bad draw nearly by Beverley cathedral… he moved well keeping pace of his first go at 5f… up there most of the way… Freddie sat pretty in the plate just giving HB a bit of rain. 2f out a few of the fancied runners started to come under pressure…. Henry had come wide and was poised to pick them off… the pace in the race had left him wanting to catch horses, Freddie pressed the button, a slap of the persuader , Henry ears pricked head down responded…. gaining ground with every stride….. The noise from the wildcard camp grew, Henry drew level and went on…. last 100 yards it was all over today he was not stopping in front….. Freddie pushed him home….. Finally his owners really had something to cheer about….. pushing people out of the way to get to the parade ring…. HB was stood next to Freddie…. veins pumping, nostrils flayed…. He had galloped today all right…. He had done the business…. ( i put it down to his new lucky headband)

After multiple pictures, it was to collect our trophy and then to celebrate…. Champagne time!!!!

 To view the race   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMXnc2fPbss

 

Henry has now won or been placed 8 from 11…. you can’t ask much more from a syndicate horse!!!!

 

WRS June 2012

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June gave WRS our biggest victory to date….. and put us on the global map. All thanks to Deerslayer and Amy Weaver..

Deerslayer – He finally did the business for wrs stateside, Rudy had found him the perfect race, a massive $33,000 pot…. race time in UK was 1220 am, I managed to stay up and cheer him home. Hitting the front 2f out he showed all his ability to hold off the late challenge. Deerslayer was claimed after the race for $20,000 and the plan was complete… Thanks to all involved.

Henry Bee- He continues to be a consistent performer but still that elusive win escapes him… We went to Redcar as fav in a poor maiden, this being his downfall as he was out on his own a long time and started to wander, getting caught close home. A few days ago we headed north to Musselburgh and bumped into a nice filly of Mark Johnston…. Was one of henrys best performances to date going down by a half a length….

Woolfall Sovereign – We have not had the ground to run him on in June, he was set to run at Thirsk until bad weather halted that

Siberian Belle – She has come down with an infection after being bitten, so has been in and out of action… won’t be long till we see her again on track.

Somethingboutmary -  Races for novices are not easy to find, we found a perfect one at Newcastle, just 4 runners. Hot fav to beat, Mary prepped and ready to roll….. but our little diva of a filly decided that the stalls were not for her and refused to go in…. looking at the race we missed a golden opportunity. So she has been sent to Gary witherford http://www.garywitheford.co.uk/ to pass a stalls test and make sure this does not happen again. Gary has worked with the best so she is in good hands

Wildcard Racing May 12…..

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Its been a busy a busy month for WRS…. plenty of running and a mixed bag of results. Racing is there to test us but we continue to battle on…. we have the horses just need the luck.

SIBERIAN BELLE, made her seasonal debut at Beverly on 7th May. She had not been seen since running at Leicester last October. She has grown a lot over the winter but the penny just don’t look liked it has dropped…. we went to Beverley with an aim to see how much she has come on… sadly she was back to her own tricks, jumping and running sideways. She is a filly with bags of talent but we are struggling to find the key to unlock her. She has been working in headgear so just maybe its the answer, the horse she worked well against on the musley bank gallops has come out and won….. it may just be her time

WOOLFALL SOVERIGN

Wooly is a frustrating animal at present, working well at home but not producing the goods on track… Despite our thoughts on him being a soft ground horse his latest run and our first wrs horse at ascot proved otherwise…. Ian Mongan said he was never travelling and the ground just did not suit… we will try again, this tie on good ground…. Wooly or Nu Nu as he is known in the yard is so well handicapped rated of 76 at present, has won of 83 so we are sticking with him and he will reward our faith

HENRY BEE

Henry has put in 2 very different efforts in May, both ends of the spectrum. His best effort came at Thirsk going very close just bumping in to a good one on the day. He was slow away but picked up well to lead inside final furlong before getting headed. form of his last races has been very good so we headed to Ripon on Tuesday with very high hopes….. sadly Henry Bee had a different idea. Falling out of stalls, going right, then left and by half way was well back… Shane let him coast home. straight off to the vets to be checked over as the performance was so bad…. Nothing seems to be wrong with him so I can’t explain what the issue was…. its Redcar Monday for him now

SOMETHINGBOUTMARY

After winning on debut SBM had not been out but we felt it was right to give her a chance in the listed race at York over 5F, a hot race with a short price fav, but she had clocked a very fast time at southwell despite running green, so we were there to take our chance. What we did learn from the race is that she still has a lot to learn. She broke poor and at that level you don’t get chance to get back in to it….. we may try 6f next if the race comes up but she is a filly with a nice future…. I never sold her as a superstar but we do think we have a nice one that will win races….

DEERSLAYER

our American wing of wildcard racing is starting to really get going now.. Deerslayer had run at Belmont over 6f and failed to get home finishing 5th and leading just about all way till 1 out…. we were fully expecting a fast 5f race and land a nice prize, instead we entered him over 7f…. knowing the horse and his speed I did not think that 7 would suit and he would blow up and trail in last… shows what I know. Deerslayer as always led and kept finding more and more…. entering the final 200 yards wrs was looking at a $40,000 payday. The line was just 1 yard to far and he was done by a nose on the line….. has to be the best race he has run stateside to date, making me look stupid telling everyone not to back him….. we have found another race on 9th June and confidence is high….

 

OTHER NEWS

Our broodmare Scillion is in foal to equiano and we will be expecting her to give birth to a colt in early Feb…. She is very well will get some pics of her on my next visit…..

GOLF EVENT

As some of you will know I am involved with racing welfare and help out when I can…. This year was Barneys challenge…. so I decided to arrange a golf event, 64 players headed to Malton and Norton golf club to take park including Richard Fahey, Dave Allan, Lee Topliss, Kevin Darley ,George Duffield and Martin Lane….

A great day had by all with Martin Lanes Newmarket team winning followed by Team Richard Fahey and in 3rd another team from the fahey Yard. I Have raised just a touch under £3000 for Racing Welfare so a massive thank you to all that played

I expect to have an event next year but bigger and more stars from the racing world in attendance

 

so we had into June with runners ready to go, hoping for a bit of luck….. Woolfall may run sat, henry bee Monday at Redcar and Deerslayer 9th June at Belmont…..

Henry Bee @ wolves 19/01/12

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Henry Bee was sent of favourite, as short as 9/4 in places. We fully expected a good run, Given a better draw and a bit more experience. It was a very rough race, so rough that Henry had a shoe pulled of round the first bend, Hiow much this cost us will never know. We were very pleased with his attitude as he held his own round the bend making sure that no one got past.

Turning for home Paul kicked for home, knowing that Henry may want further decided to burn them off, Henry hit the front and his inexperience showed, Thinking he had done enough he pricked his ears un-sure what to do, It was only when Les Verguettes came past him that Henry kicked on again, Fighting back to the line…. He was beaten on a bob of heads.

Paul was gutted that he had not got his up but Henry has now learnt the game, next time he hits the front he will know what to do. He has the right attitude and is a winner waiting to happen

Henry Bee @ wolverhampton 05/01/12

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Henry Bee made his debut at wolves on Thursday….. Paul Hanagan booked to ride in prep for his trip to Dubai. After speaking to Richard a good run was expected but in no way as good as Henry bee delivered.

Henry Bee took every thing in his stride from parade ring to cantering down to the start, for his first run he showed all the right signs. We had been given a bad draw 8/8 after 3 non runners it was left to Paul to make the choice how to run the race and hope that Henry played ball.

He looked a bit taken off his feet at 1st but he was soon moving with the group and looked to be traveling well, he was very wide all the way round, coming off the final bend Henry really started to pick up coming to challenge the leaders, ( if you listen to the race replay you can hear wildcard owners shouting his name) just when we thought the race was in our sights Jamie Spencers mount jinked right taking the 2nd horse with him and knocking Henry off his stride and our chance had gone…. Paul let him coast home in to 3rd.

His bad draw and slight greenness were his downfall but he will come on so much for the run, Paul was very happy after getting off him a horse we will have fun with were his words. We expect to see him again in 2/3 weeks

Henry going to post – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYUsZkito4Q&list=UUdVBdFCGpC4W8_HF5yFEMbg&index=1&feature=plcp

Great day out had by the new owners, many more to come. Still a few shares available please get in touch