Racehorse trainer Sussex
Autumn is now upon us and I look forward to the advent of warm rain to keep the last of the insects at bay. As a bonus, it tends to see off the most annoying human beings too. Never underestimate warm rain, it wants to be your friend. Talking of friends, we have a new…
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We have acquired LOS BLANCO from the Thoroughbid online sale. He is rated 120 as both a hurdler and a chaser in Ireland, having finished runner-up in both of his chase starts. A 16.1 hands seven year old by Masked Marvel, who has produced more than his fair share of top class winners (Set Jem…
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Hello, helper monkey. I notice that you have been a bit slow to update the blog this month. {You seem very smug today – Ed.} Only as smug as I usually am, which is fairly smug. I was just wondering when you were going to update the blog to note that I broke the drought.…
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Greetings from Belgium. Don’t worry, I am still in a field at Shovelstrode. I just had the urge to make an in-joke that excludes people who failed to read the July blog. The helper monkey tells me that humans tend to like a running joke. Well funnily enough, so do horses. How else do you…
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The blog is late this month because I have been busy watching the World Cup. We don’t have an actual television in the field, but I directed the other horses to erect an elaborate system of mirrors so that we could get it from any nearby location with one. It worked pretty well, because we…
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We had a new bloke in the field since my last update, Hallo Max. He seemed nice enough, but all of a sudden the field suddenly felt a bit…overcrowded. To the untrained human eye, it might look like a very big field, but I subscribe to the philosophy that anything which is not within touching…
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Greetings from the undisputed chess champion of the bath field and the summer field. I have indeed united the belts (whatever that means), carrying my unbeaten run into the summer field defeating all the horses that have ventured my way. I have to say that the challengers took their defeats with good grace, apart from…
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Apologies if this blog does not make sense. Suzy Wood went off on her summer holiday and just dumped it on me with the instruction “do the blog and don’t ruin it.” I mean, as a mission statement it is a bit vague and I have had to put up with Wait In The Wings…
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Suzy Wood: How did your second hurdles run go? Monansunu: We should change the subject. The race was spoiled by our chesnut enemies. S: I checked the racecard and thirteen of the fifteen in it were bays. M: You would not believe the trouble that the other two caused though. S: The form book says…
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Suzy Wood: Word on the street is that you had a race over hurdles. Monansunu: Yes. It’s a bit of a weird thing to do, isn’t it? S: Not really. Only a weird horse would find it strange. This is not the first weird thing that you have said whilst denying any weirdness in yourself.…
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