Thank you for the kind messages during my absence. I'm on the mend slowly and have some blood tests lined up on Friday of this week; and hopefully there is no long term problem and a change in hydration habits can cure the kidney stones and infection.

 

It's certainly a frustrating time waiting for some substantial rain to arrive, paradoxically, this time last year it arrived and barely stopped until Christmas. It can happen that it's either abnormally wet or dry at this time as we've witnessed since moving to Devon 6 years ago with alternating years it seems to be too dry or too wet in the late Autumn. It's all down to what weather the Jet Streams to the north and south of the UK lock us in to.  Hopefully we can get some precipitation before too long to allow the genuine Winter NH types to come out and have runs before Christmas. I don't think it's any coincidence that one of the few big field handicaps we were able to attack in the week, on genuinely Good to Soft ground delivered a 22/1 SP winner.

 

Jon will review both yesterdays action and todays in his mail tomorrow morning.

 

There are 3 NH Fixtures today, not great numbers at Sandown, nothing really to note at Naas other than a couple of fancied Trackers, so we'll target a couple of competitive decent Handicap races on Good to Soft at Ffos Llas.