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News Archive: October 2007 |
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Week Beginning - 01.10.07 |
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Examples of the artwork by Red House's newest link. |
Monday 1st October: Mrs Angry of Hamilton Road senses a swell of discontent amongst owners over prizemoney levels. More scathing correspondence is appearing in the letter pages of the Racing Post with pleas to the Racehorse Owners' Association TO DO SOMETHING! This is good!
Tuesday 2nd October: It's 1-0 to the humans as the first yearling was rollered. The Compton Place x Billie Blue filly put up a token resistance but the breaking team soon had her measure!
Wednesday 3rd October: For centuries artists have captured the magic of the thoroughbred on canvas and there is no better place to view such art than here at racing HQ. From October 4th until October 20th there is an exhibition of equestrian paintings at the historic Palace House, just off the High Street. We have been privileged to have known one of the exhibitors, Alison Wilson, for some years now and she has immortalised Herr Trigger, Bobbydazzle and Billie Blue with her most recent foal in her own immortal way! Browse her website at www.alisonwilson.co.uk - now linked to our own site (see bottom of front page).
Friday 5th October: Next outing from Red House may well be at Kempton Park next Wednesday with TORVER.
SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND by the Spotter
FOR KICKS, yet to be approached by a Russian Billionaire |
Week Beginning - 08.10.07 |
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Compton Place x Billie Blue - rapid progress through breaking in.
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Monday 8th October: From lunging to roller to rein behind hind legs and turn on the bit all in one week. Billie Blue's Compton Place yearling filly does it all with ease. Tuesday 9th October: It's TORVER to Kempton on Wednesday.
Wednesday 10th October: FOR KICKS, off to enjoy the International break.
Thursday 11th October: As TORVER returns safe and sound from an uneventful evening at Kempton, big brother SILENT APPLAUSE hopes to chance his arm over 1m2f at Leicester next Tuesday.
Friday
12th October: SOMETHING
FOR THE WEEKEND by the Spotter |
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Week Beginning - 15.10.07 |
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Bahamian Bounty x Emerald Fire - a 24,000gn buy from a favourite family of Red House.
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Monday 15th October: Jumps trainer Nigel Twiston-Davis, interviewed on Attheraces, during the week opined that trainers need to be weather forecasters as much as anything and he only has 24 hour declarations to deal with! At 10am yesterday SILENT APPLAUSE was declared for the 5.40 at Leicester on Tuesday. We are in the hands of the weather Gods! We DO NOT require rain.
Tuesday 16th October: Yet another win for the Billie Blue dynasty as grandson Distiller scores at Wolverhampton. Meanwhile our Billie Blue yearling makes giant strides, driven expertly round the Red House yard in long reins.
Saturday 20th October: End of a hectic but extremely exciting week with 2 new recruits to bolster the Red House battalion. We now have a grey Noverre filly out of a Champion two-year-old from a strong black type family. We also have another member of our beloved Four Legged Friend family. She is a fine walking daughter of Bahamian Bounty out of Emerald Fire, a two time winning mare by Pivotal.
SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND by the Spotter |
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Week Beginning 22.10.07 |
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Noverre x Esperada - a 26,000gn purchase from the southern hemisphere's outstanding 'E' family.
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Monday 22nd October: Already our two new acquisitions are more valuable! Sweet Lilly (3rd in Listed Severals Stakes) improves the page of our Bahamian Bounty filly and Miss Lucifer (by Noverre) wins a Group 2, making our grey Noverre filly look cheap!! By the way our grey filly also happens to share fourth dams and is bred very similarly to leading two-year-old Rio De La Plata.
Finally if you have a spare moment listen to the Radio 5live Business pod cast special on the Horseracing industry.
Tuesday 23rd October: FOR KICKS proper football not that silly international stuff.
Wednesday 24th October: There is something frighteningly exciting about breaking in yearlings. Join in as we take you through the A to Z of this unpredictable process over the coming weeks. Our chosen subject being the Bahamian Bounty x Emerald Fire filly purchased at the Tattersalls October sales.
STEP 1: Because she has come from the sales she has already been "bitted" (had experience of having a bit in her mouth) and knows how to be led in hand.
STEP 2: Next we move onto lunging. Headcollar on, yearling bridle on (slightly different to a normal bridle), brushing boots on forelegs. One lunge rein on the coupling (loop) on the bridle and one on the noseband of the headcollar. Handlers with hats on to avoid nasty injuries, yearlings are very unpredictable! Into the lunge ring to lunge anti-clockwise and clockwise. No problems, she has already been taught this!!!
Friday 26th October: TORVER may head for Lingfield to compete in the final race there next Wednesday. Meanwhile, it's 1-0 to the humans again. First yearling of the season is successfully "backed".
Saturday 27th October: The clocks are going back, it's the Breeder's Cup and we're clipping the horses. It must almost be winter! Meanwhile rapid progress continues with star pupil Compton Place x Billie Blue who has now had a jockey on her back out in the open air! |
