Friday twelfth January, 2024 – Richard Phillips Racing

We now have three runners tomorrow with Totterdown, Lesser and City Champion.  Totterdown runs at Warwick within the two mile handicap hurdle at 12.40pm with Finn Lambert onboard claiming 5 kilos.  It’s a aggressive occasion however he seems in good kind and allow us to hope he offers The Adlestrop Membership a aggressive run.

Lesser is asserted within the 2.50pm at Wetherby with Adam Wedge onboard.  He has been off the observe for someday however is unbeaten having gained a point-to-point, a bumper and two novice hurdles.  He’s a course and distance winner and though he’ll get additional in time, it appears to be like a great start line for him.  He has loads of means and hopefully he’ll present that he retains tomorrow.

City Champion runs within the mile and a half handicap at Wolverhampton run at 8.30pm.  It’s a step up in journey for him and if he settles, he has proven sufficient means previously to be aggressive.

Iron Horse has been retired from racing following his run at Docnaster on Wednesday.  He hasn’t jumped with the identical fluency since his fall at Chepstow when wanting the doubtless winner within the spring.

He has been a grand servant and we now have made the choice that now could be the time for him to have completely satisfied retirement.  It was great that his proprietor/breeders Eustace and Carol Theodore, Karen Anderson and Amanda Langdale have been all current for his remaining run.

That they had purchased Iron Horse’s mom, What A Classic, some nineteen years in the past and have been on an awesome journcey since with What A Classic successful a bumper and over hurdles and Grasp Classic, Iron Horse’s brother, giving us all a lot excitment over time.

It was additionally a big day as conditional jockey Harry Atkins rode Iron Horse and his mum Vicki led him up (pictured).  Harry labored weekends for us when he was loads youthful and used to journey out in his college holidays.  He has all the time been a pure rider and appears to have a superb profession forward of him.