Monday eleventh December 2023 – Richard Phillips Racing

With the bottom being very comfortable and conferences being known as off, we haven’t had any runners not too long ago as we’re eager to keep away from very unhealthy floor for our novices.  Nevertheless we are going to hopefully have some runners in direction of the tip of the week as they’re entered on tracks that often have extra appropriate floor in Taunton, Doncaster and Hereford.

We had a relatively moist however helpful work morning on Saturday the place we had been honoured to be joined by David Elsworth who had stayed over following our fantastic Desert Orchid night the night time earlier than.  The maestro had additionally joined me for night stables on Friday which is definitely an expertise I’ll always remember and it was very pleasing that he commented how properly the horses appeared of their coats.

I used to be relatively eager to indicate him our four-year-old Norse Dancer filly as David educated her father.  Delighted that he thought she was filled with potential and we look ahead to syndicating her sooner or later.

Many due to all who attended our Desert Orchid night on Friday.  Delighted to lift a good about of cash for the Motor Neurone Illness Affiliation which is a trigger near David’s coronary heart as his first Cheltenham Competition winner, Heighlin, was ridden by Steve Jobar who’s sadly affected by the illness.

The panel consisting of Colin Brown, Simon Sherwood D Elsworth and Stretch the dachshund, each fascinated and entertained a packed village corridor with tales of their careers and the nice gray.  David introduced alongside a few footage of Dessie to public sale for the trigger and the tales from all three made an event to be remembered for a few years to return.

The night emphasised how a lot the racing neighborhood each love and respect racehorses and we look ahead to the Adlestrop Membership paying tribute to different equine favourites sooner or later.