My week has been a bit up and down\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Starting with a double at Kelso on Saturday \u2013 both Mister Whitaker and Sultans Pride were very pleasing, and Minella Drama was a bit unlucky but still ran a very good race. Minella Trump won nicely at Sandown on Sunday too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Richmond Lake and Barrichello both won well on Wednesday. Goobinator was quite unlucky but he\u2019s certainly brave!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We are lucky to have a lot of nice horses at Cholmondeley (Donald McCain\u2019s yard), and hopeful of a decent weekend, although it\u2019s always tricky to ride a winner at Cheltenham!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m at Wetherby tomorrow where I have five rides\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
12.15pm \u2013 Ritson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I don\u2019t know Ritson very well. He\u2019s run OK in a couple of bumpers, and I\u2019m led to believe the trainer holds him in decent regard. Ben Case and Olly Murphy\u2019s runners look smart, so I\u2019d be more hopeful than confident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1.25pm \u2013 One Night In Milan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n He\u2019s a half-brother to none other than Native River. I\u2019ve won a couple of races on him and like to think he has an each-way chance. He\u2019s been running OK on the flat this year, but so has the favourite, so we\u2019ll have to hope all goes in our favour tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2pm- Return Ticket<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n He won at this track over 2miles two starts ago and whipped around at the start the day I had a five-timer, so his chance had gone that day, but he ran okay to finish third. He wants fast ground so wouldn\u2019t want any more rain, but he\u2019s been running well and is a horse with an decent level of ability so I\u2019m hopeful he\u2019ll run well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2.35pm \u2013 Sauce Of Life<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This is a lovely horse and probably one of my best rides of the day. It\u2019s an interesting sort of race with some nice types in it, but Sauce Of Life is a nice horse who won both of his bumpers and has been ready to run for a while. I\u2019d be hoping he\u2019ll go very well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3.10pm \u2013 First Impression<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n He\u2019s only had four starts over hurdles and I won on him the last time I rode him at Wetherby. He ran OK in a Juvenile handicap hurdle at Ascot and has been running on the flat most recently, finishing 2nd<\/sup> to an improver for Godolphin last time out, so you\u2019d think there was a bit more mileage in his handicap mark. I\u2019m confident of him running well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My week has been a bit up and down\u2026 Starting with a double at Kelso on Saturday \u2013 both Mister Whitaker and Sultans Pride were very pleasing, and Minella Drama was a bit unlucky but still ran a very good race. Minella Trump won nicely at Sandown on Sunday too. Richmond Lake and Barrichello both […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":39465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[809,618,824,826],"class_list":["post-31077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-horse-racing","tag-ascot-racecourse","tag-cheltenham-racecourse","tag-kelso-racecourse","tag-wetherby-racecourse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mansionbet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mansionbet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mansionbet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansionbet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansionbet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31077"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansionbet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40195,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansionbet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31077\/revisions\/40195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansionbet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mansionbet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansionbet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansionbet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}