Good morning all,

The second part of my article of jumps trainers currently finding life hard on the main piece, and if you haven't, I would advise you to go and have a quick read of Phil's comment on yesterday's piece as he makes a couple of very relevant points.

I would say that, despite the virus that seemed to spread throughout Newmarket last year, that trainers do try and cope with it in different ways – some go for the complete shutdown of operations to try and find the cause but I do know of at least one yard that had the virus with some of their horses but continued on – they simply found the sick horses, quarantined them away from the healthy ones and as a result, had a really good spell of winners. So even when you know there's a sickness in a yard, it doesn't mean they can't have winners. But I agree with Phil, you should be able to find out when a trainer has sick horses rather than having to try and work it out for yourself, and then you can make your own judgements. Read More »More Trainer Struggles

Good morning all,

Not much on today and I'm going to make a decision in the next hour about whether to go to Bath today, and tick another course I've never been to off the list. I could crack on with the weekend's work but the temptation of visiting a new course is proving a big pull…

Anyway, not much to talk about today so a look ahead to one or two that I've seen in the entries for the coming week, plus today's selection at the end. Read More »The Week Ahead